To begin 2020, Krakow Witkin Gallery proudly announces an expansive exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s work. Through structures (LeWitt’s terminology for his three dimensional works) and gouaches, the exhibition displays forty years’ exploration of the cube. In addition, a large wall piece (“White styrofoam on black wall” from 1993) provides a bold contrast to all the rectilinear forms.
The exhibition contains an ‘open form’ structure, a ‘closed form’ structure, a ‘progression’ and an extremely rare 1968 “Hidden Cubes” structure that has never previously been exhibited. The works on paper present two ways LeWitt drew/painted cubes — isometric and trimetric. Furthermore, the different pieces help illuminate the processes he used to layer color on paper to create the variations of tone, positive/negative, foreground/background and surface/depth. By not using illustrative perspective, LeWitt honors the flatness of the paper by presenting all visible sides of the cube and the background as equal.
This sense of equality is key to understanding LeWitt’s work from the date of the first piece in the show (1968) to the last (2005). Visible and hidden, monochrome and polychrome, 3D and 2D, and numerous other seeming dichotomies are treated by LeWitt as mutually significant. LeWitt’s longtime assistant, Susanna Singer, describes LeWitt’s overall practice as ‘using a vocabulary to create language.’ This exhibition gives the audience an opportunity to revel in his language and hopefully celebrate the curiosity with which LeWitt approached life.
Dimensions variable
This installation size: 120 x 495 inches (304.8 x 1257.3 cm)
First installation: Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, September 1993
First drawn by: Martine Aboucaya, Stephanie Arnaud, Sachiko Cho, Solène Merzeau
(Inventory #31021)
Dimensions variable
This installation size: 120 x 495 inches (304.8 x 1257.3 cm)
First installation: Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, September 1993
First drawn by: Martine Aboucaya, Stephanie Arnaud, Sachiko Cho, Solène Merzeau
(Inventory #31021)
Image/paper size: 59 3/8 x 59 3/4 inches (150.8 x 151.8 cm)
Frame size: 65 3/4 x 65 7/8 inches (167 x 167.3 cm)
Signed and dated ‘S. LeWitt 1997’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30993)
Image/paper size: 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
Frame size: 10 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (27.3 x 33.7 cm)
(Inventory #31016)
Overall: 12 x 12 x 4 3/4 inches (30.5 x 30.5 x 12 cm)
Five cubes: 4 inches, 3 1/16 inches, 2 1/8 inches, 1 5/16 inches, 15/32 inch
Base: 12 x 12 x 3/4 inches (30.5 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm)
Inscription on base, verso: “S. LeWitt 1968”
(Inventory #30839)
12 1/2 x 18 x 29 1/2 inches (32 x 46 x 75 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on bottom of base
(Inventory #27017)
11 x 11 x 11 inches (27.9 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm)
Edition of 35
Engraved stamped signature, edition and date with fabricators stamp on bottom
(Inventory #30806)
12 x 12 x 13 inches (30.5 x 30.5 x 33 cm)
Edition 6 of 6
Signed and numbered on bottom of base
(Inventory #18357)
Image/paper size: 11 x 11 inches (27.9 x 27.9 cm)
Frame size: 13 x 12 5/8 inches (33 x 32.1 cm)
Signed and dated ‘S. LeWitt 91’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30995)
Image/paper size: 11 x 11 1/4 inches (27.9 x 28.6 cm)
Signed and dated ‘S. LeWitt 91’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30996)
Image/paper size: 29 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches (75.6 x 56.5 cm)
Frame size: 34 1/2 x 27 1/4 inches (87.6 x 69.2 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Sol LeWitt 1989’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30991)
Image size: 20 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches (51.8 x 71.8 cm)
Paper size: 22 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches (57.8 x 75.6 cm)
Frame size: 24 3/4 x 32 1/4 inches (62.9 x 81.9 cm)
Signed and dated ‘S. LeWitt 91’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30988)
Image size: 20 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches (52.1 x 71.8 cm)
Paper size: 22 x 29 3/4 inches (55.9 x 75.6 cm)
Frame size: 24 5/8 x 32 1/4 inches (62.5 x 81.9 cm)
Signed and dated ‘S. LeWitt 91’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30989)
Image/paper size: 8 5/16 x 8 1/4 inches (21.1 x 21 cm)
Signed ‘S. LeWitt’ lower right in graphite
(Inventory #30992)
Image size: 21 x 13 7/8 inches (58 x 35.2 cm)
Plate size: 21 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (54.6 x 36.5 cm)
Paper size: 26 x 19 inches (66 x 48.3 cm)Frame size: 27 3/8 x 20 1/8 inches (69.5 x 51.1 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #22728)
Krakow 1989.01
Image/plate size: 12 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches (30.8 x 30.8 cm)
Paper size: 15 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (39.7 x 35.9 cm)
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered lower right
(Inventory #29204)
Krakow 1997.04
Image size: 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (31.1 x 31.1 cm)
Paper size: 17 x 17 inches (43.2 x 43.2 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #29707)
Krakow 2004.02
Image size: 11 x 11 inches (28 x 28 cm)
Paper size: 14 x 14 inches (35.5 x 35.5 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #29719)
Krakow 2004.01
Edition of 50
Image size: 12 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (32.1 x 34.9 cm)
Paper size: 14 x 14 inches (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
(Inventory #21197)
Krakow 1967.01
Image/paper size: 14 x 17 inches (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
Frame size: 16 x 20 1/8 inches (40.6 x 51.1 cm)
Signed and dated “For Don Vlack Feb 1 1967-Sol LeWitt” upper left corner
(Inventory #28130)
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