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Sol LeWitt
* Hartford (CT), United States, 9 September 1928
+ New York (NY), United States, 8 April 2007
nationality: american
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Sol LeWitt: Lines, Forms, Volumes 1970s to Present, Napoli (Italy), Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, 9 september / 2 november 2019

Lines, Forms, Volumes is the first historical survey of the work of American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (Hartford, 1928 - New York, 2007) in Naples, Italy. Spanning 40 years, the exhibition looks at LeWitt's lifelong relationship with Italy through a selection of works, including wall drawings, structures, drawings, photographs, and gouaches, many of which are being shown again for the first time since they were first exhibited in Italy.

Sol LeWitt began visiting Italy in the late 1960s, exhibiting at places such as L'Attico, Rome (1969), Galleria Sperone, Turin (1970), Galleria Civica, Turin (1970), and Galleria Toselli, Milan (1971), for such seminal exhibitions as Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, curated by Germano Celant. In 1971, gallerist Marilena Bonomo introduced LeWitt to the region of Spoleto, which would later become his adopted home. It was this fertile ground and network of support from countless artists, gallerists, curators, and art critics throughout Italy that played a key role in the development and evolution of the work of one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

The works included in the exhibition were first created between 1974 and 2005, and are presented across the six galleries of Galleria Alfonso Artiaco. Six wall drawings, ranging in media from black pencil to India ink, have been installed for the exhibition, and adapted specifically to the architecture of the gallery.
The exhibition explores the evolution of LeWitt's work over time, showcasing early examples of the artist's interest in line, location, and language, with works such as Wall Drawing #241 Straight lines from the upper left corner of the wall to specified points on the wall (The specific location of the points is determined by the drafter) first installed in 1975 by LeWitt at Lucio Amelio Modern Art Agency, Naples. Lines, Forms, Volumes then traces LeWitt's expanding visual vocabulary, from his exploration of the immersive potential of architecture, and his use of new materials, to the creation of illusionistic space through isometry. The exhibition culminates in LeWitt's poetic union of line, form, and volume in the black pencil "Scribbles” work Wall Drawing #1146 B Sphere Lit from the Left conceived by the artist in 2005, just a few years before his death. Lines, Forms, Volumes opens on September 9th, Sol LeWitt's birthday, and is a celebration of the long friendship shared between the artist and Alfonso Artiaco.

The six wall drawings in the exhibition have been executed by LeWitt studio drafters Nicolai Angelov and Andrew Colbert, with the assistance of Federico Del Vecchio and Angelo Volpe and five students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples: Pier Paolo Perrone, Alessia Canelli, Teresa Gargiulo, Pamela Orrico and Mary Baldassarre.

Sol LeWitt: Lines, Forms, Volumes 1970s to Present opens on 9”‘ September, Sol LeWitt's birth anniversary and it celebrates the long lasting relationship between the artist and Alfonso Artiaco, started with the first Sol LeWitt's solo exhibition in the gallery spaces in 1989.

LeWitt's work can be found in the permanent collections of hundreds of museums worldwide.
Major exhibitions of LeWitt's work have been held at Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1984), Zerynthia, Paliano (1994), Palazzo Forti, Verona (1998), Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2000), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2000), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (1979, 2000), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2000), Dia:Beacon, New York (2006), Centre Pompidou - Metz, Metz (2011), M-Museum Leuven, Leuven (2011), Museo MADRE, Naples (2012), Fundacion Botin, Santander (2015), and Fondazione Carriero, Milan (2017). Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, which features over 100 wall drawings, will remain on view at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art through 2043.

Lindsay Aveilhé
Francesco Stocchi, Rem Koolhaas, (ed.), Sol LeWitt. Between the Lines, Milano, Fondazione Carriero, 17 november 2017 / 23 june 2018
Sol LeWitt. 17 Wall Drawings. 1970-2015, Santander (Spain), Centro Botín, 18 july 2015 / 10 january 2016
Extended Drawing. Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Maastricht (NL), Bonnefantenmuseum, 18 september 2011 / 15 january 2012
 
 
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