SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007
Wall Drawing #879 Loopy Doopy (black and white)
SOL LEWITT. WALL DRAWINGS FROM 1968 TO 2007
Wall Drawing #1171
Wall Drawing #879 (1998) is part of a series of works with undulating patterns, titled Loopy Doopy, which marks a turning-point in LeWitt's practice as it breaks with the systematic and modular approach that characterizes the artist’s early works. Exceptionally, these irregular curves cannot be drawn by following instructions or diagrams. Instead, a copy of LeWitt's original drawing on paper is printed on a transparency and projected onto the alloted wall. The drafters can then precisely trace the meanders of this surprising, organic work.
Wall Drawing #1171 (2005) is part of LeWitt's final series of works. Titled Scribbles and executed between 2005 and 2007, these wall drawings return to a technique of scribbling with colored pencil, explored in the early 1970s, using graphite. The seemingly random but yet highly methodical application produces precise degrees of density. Five or six shades of gray (depending on the drawing) are meticulously applied inside squares or isometric cubes. The scribbling technique produces paradoxical works in combining one of drawing's most primitive forms with carefully controlled conceptual seriality.
Wall Drawing #879 Loopy Doopy (black and white)
Wall Drawing #1171 Five degrees of scribbles: A cube without a cube; a cube without a corner
Acrylic paint
Graphite
First drawn by: Elizabeth Alderman, Sachiko Cho, Edy Ferguson, Anders Felix, Paux Hedberg, Choichi Nishikawa, Jim Prez, Emily Ripley, Mio Takashima First installation: PaceWildenstein, New York September 1998
First drawn by: Roland Lusk, Anthony Sansotta First installation: domicile des Glimcher, East Hampton, New York August 2005 Collection Arne and Milly Glimcher, New York © 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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