In this review, I will focus on 3 temporary exhibition in the MOMA, they are the Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing, Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave and Artist Choice + Vik Muniz = REBUS.
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #260, Crayon on painted wall, 1975
Drawn by Charles Allen, Andrew Colbert, Anthony Sansotta, and Nobuto Suga
Sol LeWitt is one of the early artists who explores the possibility of art to go beyond the canvas and paper. Sol LeWitt produces more than 1200 paintings, which draw directly onto the wall. In this exhibition, his Wall Drawing #260, 1975 is installed on one of the gallery space in MOMA. In this wall drawing, Sol LeWitt had drawn numerous white arcs from corner and side, and also white straight, non-straight and broken lines on a black wall. Like what Sol LeWitt said, “The white lines maintain their grid and by changing offer clues to the system. The plan is always presented so that the viewer will know that the changes are not capricious but systematic, becoming a language and a narrative of shapes.” Besides the systematic idea, Sol LeWitt ‘s wall drawing also evokes the questioning of the gallery space. Instead of hanging the paintings or drawing on the wall of the gallery, he intentionally put his drawing onto the wall of the gallery, which shows a mergence of the gallery space and the artwork itself. As a conceptual artist, Sol LeWitt offers the priority of an idea and concept than the physical appearance of an artwork. Experiencing an artwork like this is therefore not a two dimension one, but a three-dimensional perception.
Focus: Sol LeWitt
December 5, 2008–June 29, 2009
Fourth floor, MOMA, NYC
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ReplyDeletealthough Sol LeWitt had passed away, through his hand, changing seems so easy. Maybe is like what he said, the idea became a machine that makes art...
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