BOOK / WRITINGS. Sol Lewitt

ESSAY

Sol LeWitt holds a privileged place in history as an artist who also served as a theorist of conceptual art. He firmly believed in the artist as a generator of ideas. He was a pragmatic intellectual who added a new dimension to the role of the artist, marking a transitional period from modernism to contemporary art, far from Abstract Expressionism or any kind of Romanticism. For LeWitt, the work of art is the idea itself and how it can be considered a work and a work in itself, emphasizing the process or the project over the construction of the work. "An artist must be willing to conceive a work of art and delegate its production to others, or perhaps, at the other extreme, not even have to make it." LeWitt's work meandered between drawing, photography, and sculpture, as well as the production of ephemeral murals and publishing projects.

This book presents his own writings, letters, statements, interviews, diagrams, and schemes, which reveal a structured and systematic way of thinking, a kind of formal mathematics. LeWitt was a fundamental artist for his generation and remains largely indispensable for understanding the present.

“Conceptual artists are more mystics than rationalists. In a split second, they reach conclusions that logic cannot reach.” – SL

Title: Escritos.
Author: Sol Lewitt
Pages: 156
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Weight: 150 grams
Genre: Essay
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alias
Year: 2019