Master Drawings New York x IFPDA Print Fair

Javits Convention Center, 429 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001, 26 - 29 October 2023 
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Sol LeWitt. Complex Forms, 1989. Pencil, gouache, and watercolor on Fabriano Tiepolo paper. Image courtesy of Zeit Contemporary Art, New York.
Sol LeWitt. Complex Forms, 1989. Pencil, gouache, and watercolor on Fabriano Tiepolo paper. Image courtesy of Zeit Contemporary Art, New York.
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Zeit Contemporary Art is pleased to participate in the IFPDA Print Fair in New York with a selection of gouaches by Sol LeWitt presented within Master Drawings New York’s special showcase devoted to the relationship of drawings to prints and printmaking.

 

While Sol LeWitt is primarily celebrated for his conceptual and often monumental installations, his gouaches serve as a window into his more intimate and personal artistic endeavors. These works challenge conventional notions of what constitutes an artwork and encourage viewers to engage with the underlying concepts and systems, emphasizing the role of the viewer’s interpretation in the art-making process. LeWitt’s gouaches represent a harmonious blend of precision and creativity, and they continue to intrigue and inspire art enthusiasts, further solidifying his place in the annals of contemporary art history.

 

This presentation opens with LeWitt’s Complex Forms from 1989, one the most sophisticated and elegant works created in the eve of the 1990s, which served as the basis for a major wall-drawing today in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and a print portfolio of the same title comprised of five etchings and published in the subsequent year. Other gouaches from series such as Wavy Lines, Irregular Grid, and Irregular Form gave place to remarkable printmaking projects through the 1990s and the early 2000s. The transitions from drawing to printmaking and vice versa allowed LeWitt a taxonomic interpretation of free gesture and a serial development of organic abstract forms in variants and permutations. This cross pollination of forms and processes intrinsic to the two artistic mediums enriched LeWitt’s conceptual project and cast a view of his gouaches and prints as two intimately related bodies of work. 

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