The interaction between textual instruction and physical drawing is so like a puzzle that has to be worked out, that draftsmen practice the constructions of the figures on paper, scaled to the dimensions of the wall. Spanning the artist’s career from 1969-2007, Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retropspective, compiles 105 large-scale wall drawings, housed in a newly restored three-story mill on the Massachussetts MoCA grounds. The solution, the final wall drawing, is a product of figuring out both mentally and physically, an exercise both in geometry and in artistry. Sol Lewitt’s final conceptual undertaking before his death last April is now on view at Mass MoCA.
The presence of the text in these location drawings imbues the physical wall drawing with a verbal, or less physical, quality that moves it into the realm of the conceptual rather than into the realm of the actualized. Sol LeWitt’s interest in the relationship between text and image is, conversely, an expression of his valuation of the idea over the object. This poetic practice was involved with attempting to convey more immediate messages by transforming the written word into shapes that reflected meaning or structure, thereby transposing the written artwork into a more visual artwork. While his earliest wall drawings were largely comprised of straight lines in four directions, in the 1970s he pushed the organization and form of the line in many new directions. The juxtaposition of text and image has garnered comparison between LeWitt’s location drawings and the concrete poetry that emerged in Europe and South America in the 1950s. Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the worlds treasures online. Sol LeWitt ’s wall drawings of the 1970s are categorized by broad variety and experimentation. These include his rectangles within rectangles, a motif he first explored in the sculptural pieces from the 1960s, and the circles and arcs he began to work with in the 1970s.
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective - MASS MoCA. Wall Drawing 915 can be read as an amalgamation of many of Sol LeWitt ’s formal themes from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Artists Artworks Auctions Viewing Rooms Galleries Fairs Shows Museums. The text that directs the construction appears on the wall beside the figure, displaying both the puzzle and the solution worked out by the draftsman. From MASS MoCA, Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 414 (1984) Skip to Main Content.
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This wall drawing, like The location of a trapezoid, is an example of the location drawing series in which Sol LeWitt explores possible relationships between textual description and physical drafting.
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