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Copyright the artist | | | LeWitt, Sol (1928 - 2007) USA
Eight Sided Pyramid, 1992
Painted aluminium ; 193 x 187 x 187 cm Minimalism
UID 102-336
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Biography
American conceptual artist, sculptor and draughtsman, born in Hartford, Connecticut. Studied at Syracuse University, New York, 1945-49, followed by military service in Japan and Korea (1951-52), his interest in Oriental art dates from this period. In 1953, he studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York, then worked from 1954-60 in the architectural office of I.M. Pei. His first sculptures using geometrical forms were executed in 1962. His modular cubes, a grid system allowing systematic variation and permutation of forms in both two or three dimensions, as module to create structures in accordance with a pre-determined, logical system date from 1965. First one-man exhibition at the Daniels Gallery, New York, 1965. Starting in 1966 with Serial Project No.1 also published a series of books constituting a parallel system. Wrote an influential article 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art' (1967). Taught at the Museum of Modern Art School, New York, 1964-67, and at New York University from 1970. Began in 1968 to create wall drawings, to be carried out by himself or others in accordance with his specifications, and has also produced series of lithographs, etchings and screen prints. He founded the group Printed Matter in 1976, devoted to publishing and distributing artists’ books. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965, namely 1971 Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, New York, Lisson Gallery, London 1974 -1981 “Documenta “4” and “7”, Kassel, 1987 ARC, Paris, 1989 Kunsthalle, Berne. A recent retrospective of Sol LeWitt was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2000. The exhibition travelled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Lives in New York.
Exhibitions
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Malevich e o Cinema Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 17-05-2002 ~ 18-08-2002
Sol Lewitt Structures 1962-93 (Edinburg) Fruitmarket Gallery, United Kingdom 01-01-1993 ~ 31-12-1994
Sol Lewitt Structures 1962-93 (Munich) Villa Stuck Museum, Germany 01-01-1993 ~ 31-12-1993
Sol Lewitt Structures 1962-93 (Oxford) Oxford Museum of Modern Art, United Kingdom 01-01-1993 ~ 31-12-1993
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
3D - The Berardo Collection at the Portugeuse Parlement Assembleia da República, Portugal 17-04-2007 ~ 20-08-2007
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Malevich y el Cine, 2002
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
Malevich e o Cinema, 2002 Published by Yale University Press New Haven and London and Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal ISBN 9728176724
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