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LEWITT, Sol (Hartford,1928 - New York, 2007)Paragrapfs o Conceptual Art

New York,  Artforum Magazine/Charles Cowles 1967

Articolo pubblicato su Artforum, Special Issue, Summer 1967, pp. 79-83

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Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) played a central role in the creation of the new radical aesthetics of the 1960s, which was in revolutionary opposition to the Abstract Expressionism of the New York school of the 1950s and 1960s.

LeWitt, like no other artist of his generation, has always upheld the importance of the concept, of the idea, that underlies the artistic work, relegating the art object to the background, to the point of total insignificance. Apart from his early original works on paper, his later works were always executed by others according to his clear and strict instructions. He was one of the first consistent proponents of conceptual art, his paper Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969) continues to be regarded as one of the reference texts on conceptual art.

Born in 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA after earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University, he began working as a graphic designer for I.M. Pei's architectural firm in New York. In 1960 he accepted a job at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the book counter, where his colleagues included Robert Ryman, Dan Flavin and Robert Mangold, with whom he began to discuss new ideas about art.

In the course of his artistic career LeWitt participated in seminal group exhibitions, including in 1966 ‘Primary Structures' at the Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA and 10, at the Dwan Gallery, New York, together with leading minimalist artists (Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Dan Flavin, Don Judd, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Smithson, and Michael Steiner); DOCUMENTA IV, Kassel, 1968 and Harald Szeeman's seminal exhibition When Attitude Becomes For, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland, 1969, in which Eva Hesse , Gary Kuehn , Robert Smithson , Alighiero Boetti , Joseph Beuys , Bruce Naumann , Hanne Darboven , Mario Merz , Hans Haacke, among others, participated.

A major retrospective of Lewitt's work was organised by the San Francisco Museum of Art in 2000, later transferred to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, USA and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His works can be found in major museum collections, including: Tate Collection, London, UK; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA; MoMA, New York, NY, USA.

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