The museum worked with the art galleries at Williams College and, especially, Yale University on the project, and the partners will evaluate what to do when the quarter-century is up. to get an early look at their absolutely terrific new installation of 105 Sol LeWitt wall drawings, a career-spanning retrospective that opens on Sunday. MASS MoCA Experience Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective with an all-new self-guided 3D tourzoom in on the details of your favorite pieces, look back at the installation process with time-lapse videos, and uncover nuggets of knowledge and history as you virtually stroll through the winding galleries. The LeWitt retrospective is on view until 2033 - yes, a 25-year run - which makes sense given the complexity, breadth and expense of what was involved in putting on the show. Two weeks ago I headed up to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass.
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Like the single Springfield work, the show was designed so all the drawings (with one exception) are on interior walls, which leaves the windows exposed around the building’s perimeter walls. August 2005 Marker Yale University Art Gallery Gift of the LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut, in honor of Terry and Richard Albright, B.A. All lines are randomly spaced and equally distributed.
Meanwhile, the Mass MOCA website also has a terrific array of information about its retrospective exhibition, including time-lapse pictures of the installation in progress. Within a four-meter (160) circle, draw 10,000 black straight lines and 10,000 black not straight lines. Commissioned for the Art in Architecture Program run by the federal General Services Administration and installed last summer, it’s worth a detour to see. Most any pilgrimage route to North Adams from the south or east goes through Springfield, but as far as I can tell this final LeWitt work hasn’t been written about before now. Wall Drawing 1185 Scribbles: Inverted Curve (Horizontal) in process of installation at the artists 2005 MASS MoCAs retrospective.
The loopy-doopy drawing, flooded with natural light from the building’s glass facade and skylights directly above, takes that fundamental difference and runs with it.
Buildings can be eccentric, but they must also subscribe to the logic of structural codes - which an artist can happily ignore. (The building was designed by Boston architect Moshe Safdie.) On a black acrylic ground, the wide white lines seem to emerge from the surrounding white-walled interior, which merges a rectilinear grid with a compound curve. The energy of the piece derives from the way it negotiates the crazy play of its linear twists and turns with the strict rationality of the architectural setting.
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