SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007
SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007
Wall Drawing #2 Drawing Series II (A) (24 drawings)
Wall Drawing #414 Drawing Series IV (A) with India ink washes (24 Drawings)
Organized within a grid, Wall Drawing #2, Drawing Series II (A) (24 drawings) (1968), presents one of the four sections of a closed system of permutations. Twenty-four combinations of sixteen squares organized according to the “Mirror” method, show the possible permutations of a straight line positioned in the four basic geometric directions: vertical, horizontal, 45° diagonal left to right, and 45° diagonal right to left.
Wall Drawing #414, Drawing Series IV (A) with India ink washes (24 Drawings) (1984) returns to another of the four sections of the system of permutations presented earlier in the exhibition with Wall Drawing #2 (1968). Here, LeWitt uses the "Cross Reverse" method to arrange his permutations. The sequences of sixteen squares are executed in India ink wash, applied with a soft rag. Each shade of gray corresponds to one of the four directions of a straight line.
Wall Drawing #2 Drawing Series II (A) (24 drawings) (detail)
Wall Drawing #414 Drawing Series IV (A) with India ink washes (24 Drawings) (detail)
Black pencil
India ink wash
First drawn by: Tony Day, Guy Dill, Jim Ganzer, Michael Maglich, Jerry Kamitaki, Sol LeWitt First installation: Ace Gallery, Los Angeles November 1968
First drawn by: David Higginbotham, Jo Watanabe First installation: Moderna Museet, Stockholm March 1984
CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux © Adagp, Paris 2012 © Photo: Centre Pompidou-Metz / Rémi Villaggi View of the installation at Centre Pompidou-Metz, February 2012
LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut © Adagp, Paris 2012 © Photo: Centre Pompidou-Metz / Rémi Villaggi View of the installation at Centre Pompidou-Metz, February 2012
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