essential – The line The use of line.
Other artists in the exhibition:
Otto Meyer-Amden (1885-1933), René Auberjonois (1872-1957),
Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), Osvaldo Licini (1894-1958),
Jacques Villon (1875-1963), Giorgio Griffa (*1936), Will Insley (1929-2011)
For a good five months, Sol LeWitt’s ‘Wall Drawing 1180, 2005, 10’000 black straight lines and 10’000 black not straight lines within a four-meter circle’ (drawn by Nicolai Angelov in early May) has dominated one of our high-ceilinged exhibition rooms, and this will remain the case for some time. The spatial and visual presence and intensity of the work is almost physical, in any case sensuously tangible. At the same time, the author and draftsman fully recede into the background. The factual impact of the wall drawing ensues entirely from its specific qualities. The textual instructions of Sol LeWitt give legitimacy to the line’s potential. The clarity of the artistic concept produced an overwhelming complexity and lack of overview.
The smart interpreter handled his two instruments, the straight and the non-straight line, in such a way that a finely woven network of lines could be created, with the gaps between the lines reduced to a minimum. Thinking, seeing and acting are a palpable presence at each position within the circle. Nevertheless these important attributes cannot be attributed to a person. Remarkably, an objectification, as it were, has come to pass.
The exemplary independence of the line as a formal artistic element, in this work apparently doing without a personal or particular ‘stroke’ (this important variant of the line being addressed here), has now become the impetus for an exhibition that uses the line as a means of artistic expression or as an artistic motif, visualizing it in a wholly non-didactic, playful and at times surprising way.
A number of artist names deserve mention here: Robert Mangold, Giorgio Griffa, Agnes Martin, David Rabinowitch, Joseph Egan, Richard Tuttle, Donald Judd, Will Insley, Fred Sandback, James Bishop, Antonio Calderara.
A few additional historical accents complete the show.
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Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
Tilted Form with color ink washes superimposed
1987
Wall Drawing #524, Acryl
Installation by Nicolai Angelov, 2013
Joseph Egan
paint to color (Nr. 2)
2015
40.5 x 70 x 3 cm
Oil on wood
Antonio Calderara (1903-1978)
Lettera di un convalescente
1976
27 x 27 cm
Oil on wood
Giorgio Griffa
o.T.
1975
150 x 260 cm
Acryl on canvas
Giorgio Griffa
o.T.
1974
70 x 53.5 cm
Acryl on canvas
James Bishop
Untitled
2014
11.6 x 14.3 cm
Oil, color pencil and collage on paper
James Bishop
Untitled
2015
11.3 x 16.5 cm
Oil, color pencil and collage on paper
Antonio Calderara (1903-1978)
Le amiche
1958
40 x 51 cm
Pencil on paper
Will Insley (1929-2011)
Channel Space, Ratio
1969 - 1973
75.5 x 75.5 cm
Pencil on paper
Donald Judd (1928-1994)
Untitled
1982
56 x 78 cm
Pencil on paper
Fred Sandback (1943-2003)
Untitled
1986
56.7 x 76.5 cm
Pencil and color pencil on paper
David Rabinowitch
Construction of Vision C
1979
2 Blätter, je: 77 x 57 cm
Pencil on paper
Robert Mangold
Untitled
1988
27 x 35 cm
Pencil and color pencil on paper
Richard Tuttle
52 1/2“ Center Point Works V (4)
1976
22.8 x 15.2 cm
Pencil on paper
Richard Tuttle
48 1/2“ Center Point Works I (10)
1976
20.3 x 12.7 cm
Pencil on paper
Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
Untitled
1965
22.3 x 22.3 cm
Ink on paper
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
10000 straight and 10000 not straight lines within a four-meter circle
2005
felt tip pen, black
Installation by Nicolai Angelov, May 2015
Robert Mangold
Compound Ring III
2012
183 x 183 cm
Acryl and black pencil on canvas
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)
10000 straight and 10000 not straight lines within a four-meter circle
2005
felt tip pen, black
Installation by Nicolai Angelov, May 2015
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) and Will Insley (1929–2011)
March 6 to April 26, 2024
James Bishop
James Bishop
Publisher: ER Publishing, Edited by Molly Warnock
Joseph Egan
Joseph Egan and Anton Himstedt: Common Ground
Publisher: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Ulrike Growe
INSIGHT #3 spotlights the graphic work of Fred Sandback through three examples from 1974 and 1982.
Joseph Egan, Ptolemäus: Die Welt im Griff? Antike Kartographie und zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunsthaus Grenchen
3. März bis 26. Mai 2024
Dan Flavin, Widmungen aus Licht, Kunstmuseum Basel
2. März bis 18. August 2024
Rita McBride, Momentum,
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY,
July 1, 2023 to January 2025
Fred Sandback, Kurt Büsser ermöglicht... Erich Buchholz und Fred Sandback, Museum Wiesbaden
19. Januar bis 14. April 2024
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art
November 16, 2008 – 2033