Sol LeWitt: A Film by Chris Teerink

"We spend a gratifying amount of the film looking at rooms in MASS MoCA that buzz..." - The New York Times

Despite his success as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century,
Sol LeWitt didn't want to be an art personality: he didn't like his picture to be taken and hardly ever gave interviews.

The film Sol LeWitt, directed by Chris Teerink, is not a biography; rather, the work itself is the point of departure. The beauty of LeWitt's work raises a question about where conceptual principles end and the quest for beauty begins. "[Conceptual artists] leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach," LeWitt says in a rare audio-interview from 1974. "I really believe that art is not something that's laid down as frosting on the cake of society. I think that aesthetics and ethics are really very much the same kind of thing."

Sol LeWitt's wall drawings can be described as obsession pushed to the limit of paradox and absurdity, an often simple idea leading to an overwhelming visual and intellectual beauty. Theoretically they can be made by anyone, anywhere. The idea, or concept, is the actual work.

MASS MoCA is the current home of 105 LeWitt large-scale wall drawings spanning the artist's storied career.

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Time:

2 pm Sat, Nov 15, 2014

Venue:

MASS MoCA

87 Marshall Street, North Adams, MA 01247

Contact:

Jodi Joseph

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