SOL LEWITT, «
Wall Structure Black,» 1962 (oil on canvas and painted wood).
Sol LeWitt,
Wall Structure Black, 1962, oil on canvas and painted wood.39» x 39» x 23-1/2» (99.1 cm x 99.1 cm x 59.7 cm).
Not exact matches
Perched on top of benches and reclining against the
walls of the restaurant
structure, migrants and refugees converse, drink
black coffee or milk tea, and watch Indian and Eastern European music videos on a large flat screen.
Huge installations dominate whole rooms in this powerful survey, including Light Sentence 2 from 1992; a huge
black structure consisting of stacked wire - mesh lockers shelters a single light bulb casting ominous shadows across the gallery
walls.
A triangular piece of the same
structure rested against a gallery
wall, while a third part, a flying wedge erected high on steel scaffolding anchored by absurdly puny
black sandbags, stood opposite.
Sol LeWitt, Cubic - Modular
Wall Structure,
Black, 1966 Painted wood, 43 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches Collection of Museum of Modern Art, NY Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967) «I will refer to the kind of art in which I am involved as conceptual art.
The most powerful moment is the pairing of a diminutive
black totem — Sol LeWitt's rough - hewn Early Wood
Structure (1962)-- before a massive
wall that serves as substrate for a performance piece by Wangechi Mutu.
In thinking about rules as acts of creation I have been recently drawn into a reinvestigation of logic based works such as Frank Stella's
black paintings (in which the logic of the making fully embodies the resulting shape), Sol LeWitt's
wall drawings (in terms of setting up a series of rules that can create a coherent visual
structure), and incremental works such as Carl Andre's floor pieces (which also embody an element of time and distance because one is required to «travel» in order to view the entire work).
In Morrison's original works, grey fungus sprouts from castle - like
structures on the floor and dead - eyed figures walk through
black - skied, giant mushroom sprouting landscapes in digitally created
wall - hung pieces.
Here, real slices of bologna schmeared with tiny,
black - and - white portrait photos are pinned in a grid to the
structure's
walls, both inside and out.
Typically, this involved the creation of large wooden
structures - often taking up an entire
wall - which consisted of numerous compartments filled with arrangements of «found» objects, commonly fragments of furniture, painted in flat uniform colours -
black, gold or white.
Printed on
black - and - white wallpaper encircling the gallery, a weed - choked expanse of a boarded - up
structure — perhaps the
wall of a former factory, now long abandoned — evokes the kind of no - man's - land that infiltrates the contemporary landscape to an ever greater degree.
He began to make his paintings more complex in
structure, colour and shape, and then brought them off the
wall, welding, shaping, doing what a sculptor does, but still - in fact more recognisably than with the
Black Paintings - seeing as a painter.
This performance extended outside the confines of the
structure into the wider gallery space, containing
wall - based neon sculptures of a muscular faun,
black and white photographs of a naked couple in choreographed poses, text - based brightly coloured paintings, and abstract sculptures reminiscent of limbs, rendered in concrete and highly polished white plaster.
A large - scale pattern painted with
black ink on the rear gallery
wall alludes to rhythms and the underlying
structures of the universe.