"It's all kinds of paradoxes, it doesn't always line up. Thompson described LeWitt's concepts as a paradox both hopeful and liberatin. They continue on to the second floor, with greater use of ink washes to create depth (always working in primaries) and up to the third with its neonlike acrylics and vibrancy. The artists selected and mapped out where each work would go Reynolds said 98 percent of gallery was exactly as he had planned (there was a slight change because of an elevator).īeginning on the first floor are his earliest works, precise lines in primary colors drawn horizontally, vertically and diagonally (four directions) that create subtle patterns in grids that, like the impressionists, can be appreciated close up and at a distance. The works cover 40 years of LeWitt conceptualizations, written instructions that can be recreated virtually anywhere. Reynolds thought they would "become a canon of art for all time" equal to the Italian frescoes.
"I think people who like Norman Rockwell and go the Rockwell Museum and who like the impressionists at the Clark will like this."Ĭarol LeWitt and Mayor John Barrett III at the Sol LeWitt retrospective opening Thompson as he stood on the open stairway's second-story platform, overlooking a looping video of a rare interview with LeWitt, who died last year. "I think it will take awhile but I think it will build," said museum Director Joseph C. Hundreds of visitors were on hand Sunday for the grand opening of the MoCA exhibit, a 25-year display and the largest gathering of LeWitt's works anywhere.Ī major attractor that solidifies MoCA's place in the art world, museum and city officials hope the exhibit fulfills the prediction to be " a site of pilgrimage for all those susceptible to the proposition that life can be beautiful as well as absurd." "He loved this building right away," said Reynolds, as he ushered a group through the 105 massive wall drawings created by nearly 60 artists over the past six months. The late artist went unerringly to the heart of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, said Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery and one of those instrumental in bringing LeWitt's works to life in the three-story space. But Sunday, it opened to acclaim as the repository for the 40-year progression of minimalist and conceptualist Sol LeWitt.
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A half-dozen years ago, Building 7 was full pigeon dung and pockmarked with rotting floors. 10:19PM / Sunday, NovemPrint Story | Email Story
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