1927-2007
American nationality
Artistic movements : minimalism art and conceptual art
Number of works in the collection : 38

LISTEN TO THE CULTURAL MEDIATOR’S COMMENTARY

Mathilde accompanies you during your visit:

QUOTES FROM THE ARTIST

“Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.”

“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”

“The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.”

IN THE EYES OF YVON LAMBERT

“The Wall Drawing No. 538 is part of the great historical lineage of in situ works that the Roman painters, then those of the Quattrocento had mastered to embellish villas and palaces. Moreover, the technique is not far from the one that prevailed to realize the patinas of the rooms decorated by the great Italian fresco painters.”

THE ARTIST’S WRITINGS TO CONSULT AFTER THE VISIT

Paragraphs on conceptual art (1967)
Sentences on conceptual art (1969)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO WATCH

BOMB Magazine – Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow (2003)
Art Critique – Sol LeWitt in the spotlight (2019)
The New York Times – Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78 (2007)