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13 hours ago · By Alice Kemp-Habib. 16 October 2024. Haegue Yang, Sol LeWitt Vehicle - 6 Unit Cube on Cube without a Cube, 2018. Photography by Mark Blower, courtesy the artist and the Hayward Gallery. Within minutes of arriving at Leap Year, the first major British survey of South Korean artist Haegue Yang’s work, through a noisy curtain of bells and past ...
4 days ago · Despite the piece’s interest in human variability, in the gallery setting, the focus remains on LeWitt, the person who conceived of the idea, rather than those who executed it. The question of who gets credit for work and why is one that I’ve been obsessed with for years.
3 days ago · In the late 1960s, Sol LeWitt established a set of aesthetic principles through two key texts that would form the basis of his practice: “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art” (1967) and “Sentences on Conceptual Art” (1969). For LeWitt, “the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.”
2 days ago · This is the definition that I prefer, as it allows art created with code to be in dialogue with thousands of years of art history, rather than only reaching back to the first artworks created with digital computers in the 1960s. As the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt wrote in 1967, “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
4 days ago · Sol LeWitt Study for "Stars with three-, four-, five-, six-, seven-, eight- and nine points, drawn with a four and one-half-inch wide band of yellow ink wash. , 1984 Dallas Museum of Art
4 days ago · “Life doesn’t last, art doesn’t last,” Hesse is famously quoted as saying, perhaps in resignation to the inevitability of her own work’s demise. Yet in other entries in her diaries she resists the prospect of decline and is distressed about the prospect of failure. In a letter to Sol Lewitt: “The work is ruined!” she laments ...
4 days ago · About 100-120 works are displayed at a time in the building, and every two years the exhibition is changed; Jean-Philippe curates each show. “We have held seven to date, but we still haven’t ...
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