Chicagoan Edward Lifson recently posted photos of the installation of MASS Moca's Sol LeWitt retrospective (opening November 16, 2008 in the Berkshires). Through a series of beautiful photos on his blog, Edward shows you how a crew makes a Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing from start to finish. It's an inspiring process that might lead you to think differently about the walls in your own home...
Edward documents each step of the process in almost 40 photos. To see the entire set, with captions, click here.
• To see more photos and read Edward's commentary, click here.
• For more information about the upcoming exhibition at MASS Moca, click here.
• To see MASS Moca's entire Flickr set documenting the installation process, click here.
• For more information on LeWitt and his process, see this post from AT:NY.
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Comments (6)
thanks for the link. love lewitt walls. never thought of trying an "a la lewitt" but it looks more time intensive then difficult.
I don't get it. It's just a bunch of stripes and doodles.
And a Van Gogh is "just" globs of oil paint.
And furniture is "just" a bunch of wood.
And fashion is "just" fabric.
What I mean is, this is something I could do. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of talent necessary. Whereas I could never create anything close to a Van Gogh.
Perhaps you should go visit this exhibit and see if this is still how you feel. Maybe you mean "this is something I could have thought of" (which is still lame), but I know for a fact that the installation requires a team of highly skilled artists, one of whom happens to be a good friend, who have been working for months on this exhibit. The pieces are installed flawlessly, showing levels of skill that I've always been awed by, in particular for the pencil work. Sorry, I think you're severely overestimating yourself.
Similar to Bridget Riley and of same generation of artists. I saw an exhibition of her works which included her detailed plans for them. The pencil work was just as stunning as the completed pieces. She also doesn't execute her works. The **precision** required for this cannot be underestimated.