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Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings from 1968 to 2007 SOL LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007 PRESS PACK 07.03.12 > 29.07.13 centrepompidou-metz.fr SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007 CONTENTS 1. PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT .............................................................................................. 02 2. EXHIBITION SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007 ................... 03 THE PRACTICE OF WALL DRAWING ............................................................................................................................................................................ 03 THE CHOICE OF BLACK AND WHITE ........................................................................................................................................................................... 03 AN EXHIBITION ORGANIZED IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE LEWITT COLLECTION .................................................. 03 AN EXHIBITION DESIGN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARTIST'S PRINCIPLES ................................................................................ 04 THE PREPARATION OF THE WALLS ............................................................................................................................................................................. 04 AN EXHIBITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ART SCHOOLS IN NORTH-EASTERN FRANCE .......................................................... 04 SELECTED WORKS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 05 TEXTS ON WALL DRAWING BY SOL LEWITT ......................................................................................................................................................... 10 3. THE WORK AND CAREER OF SOL LEWITT ............................................................................ 11 4. PUBLICATION ............................................................................................................................................ 12 5. RELATED EVENTS ................................................................................................................................... 13 YOUTH WORKSHOPS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 EVENTS IN THE AUDITORIUM WENDEL AND STUDIO ..................................................................................................................................... 13 SOL LEWITT. COLORS, JUNE 21 – OCTOBER 14, 2012 AT M-MUSEUM LEUVEN (BELGIUM) ............................................ 14 SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007, AN EXHIBITION AS PART OF MONO, A CROSS-BORDER EVENT ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15 6. LENDERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 7. PARTNERS ................................................................................................................................................... 17 8. CREDITS ........................................................................................................................................................ 19 9. VISITOR INFORMATION ...................................................................................................................... 22 10. PRESS VISUALS .................................................................................................................................. 23 1 SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007 SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007 1. 2. PRESENTATION THE EXHIBITION OF THE PROJECT SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007 OPENING MARCH 7, 2012 THE PRACTICE OF WALL DRAWING THE CHOICE OF BLACK AND WHITE A MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE, UNPRECEDENTED IN EUROPE Centre Pompidou-Metz presents a major project around In 2013, Centre Pompidou-Metz will feature Sol LeWitt's Reminiscent of the fresco tradition, Sol LeWitt's wall Centre Pompidou-Metz has chosen to present thirty-three the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). In personal collection. This second exhibition will reflect drawings marked from the late 1960s on, a decisive wall drawings by Sol LeWitt exclusively in black and white. the 13,000 square feet of Galerie 2, Centre Pompidou-Metz LeWitt's extraordinary career not only as a prolific artist development in the history of contemporary drawing "Black and white is at the heart of the conception of Sol is hosting a retrospective of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings on but also as an insatiable collector. in particular, and of art in general. Expressing thought LeWitt's wall drawings, even for the most colorful works," a scale never seen before in Europe. The selected thirty- processes which the artist conceived beforehand, the wall explains the exhibition's curator, Béatrice Gross."The The LeWitt Collection (Chester, Connecticut), assembled three wall drawings, the largest group ever exhibited in drawings are then executed directly onto the walls on the preparatory drawings are always done in pencil. Colors, largely through trades and gifts rather than purchases, Europe, span the artist's career from its beginnings to his scale of the exhibition venue. The wall drawings, produced where they exist, are indicated only by their initial letter contains, alongside a selection of LeWitt's own works, final works. on-site, exist for the duration of the exhibition; they are (R for red, Y for yellow, B for blue). In addition, the use of over 4000 works by other artists. With over 250 works, the then destroyed, giving the work in its physical form an black and white frames the artist's work: LeWitt made his Chosen from the 1200 wall drawings which LeWitt presentation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be the first ephemeral quality. Its content (or concept) however remains first wall drawings in black pencil, and the last ones in created between 1968 and 2007, the selected wall major showing of the LeWitt Collection in Europe. identical from one exhibition to the next. graphite, both on white walls." drawings reflect both the extraordinary consistency of the artist’s systematic explorations - with logical sets and LeWitt conceived the drawings to be executed mainly by This decision to show only black and white wall drawings combinations of geometric elements - and the remarkable people other than himself. Professional assistants trained also underlines the striking visual impact of LeWitt’s diversity of his practice, both in the evolution of the forms by the LeWitt studio, and drafters new to the process, work. Depending on the materials and techniques used, (from simple geometric figures to what the artist called are brought in to precisely follow LeWitt's instructions the powerful contrast between black and white, or the "complex" or "continuous" forms), and of the materials and diagrams. As the artist stated back in 1967, “In more subtle contrast of various shades of gray, stresses used by LeWitt (from pencil and crayon to India ink, acrylic conceptual art, the idea or concept is the most important the structure and the optical effects that bring the works paint and graphite). aspect of the work (…) and the execution is a perfunctory to life, from the subtle vibration of pencil lines to the affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the sustained cadence of flat areas of black and white in Through a remarkable partnership with local schools of art.” (“Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” in Artforum, vol. acrylic, through soft variations of ink washes. art and architecture, the execution of the wall drawings 5, no. 10, New York, June 1967, pp. 79-83). Like musicians at Centre Pompidou-Metz fully conveys the principle of performing a musical score, the drafters interpret, collaboration advocated by the artist. each time slightly differently and in their own way, the In partnership with Centre Pompidou-Metz, and as a geometric formulae set out by LeWitt. AN EXHIBITION ORGANIZED IN CLOSE chromatic counterpart to its retrospective of wall drawings LeWitt's wall drawings are based on: in black and white, M-Museum Leuven (Belgium) will show — a basic visual vocabulary of elementary geometric COLLABORATION WITH THE LEWITT from June 21 to October 14, 2012, twenty wall drawings in forms - straight, not straight, and broken lines, color. squares, arcs, circles, grids, etc. - which expanded COLLECTION towards more irregular, complex forms such as isometric figures, curves, and loops; Sol LeWitt. Wall Drawings from 1968 to 2007 in Galerie 2 of — a range of diverse techniques using pencil, crayon, Centre Pompidou-Metz has been conceived and developed India ink, acrylic paint and graphite. in close collaboration with the LeWitt Collection (Chester, Connecticut). The format of the exhibition, the selection The artist never ceased to explore every possible of the works, and their execution result from an ongoing combination of closed systems - the notion of the infinite dialogue with the artist's estate. The preparation of the was never part of his work - in which the repetition of exhibition’s related publication benefits from a unique forms and modules is conceived as a narrative in its own opportunity to research
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