Sol Lewitt

TANGLED BANDS, 2001

• Sol LeWitt (°1928, USA)
• gouache on paper
• 26.67 x 147.32cm

‘The recent gouaches that I’ve been doing stem from some of the early wall drawings, using not-straight pencil lines. I’ve always made drawings and, later, gouaches simultaneously with the wall drawings. The wall drawings more and more began to be done by other people. As with the wall pieces, the gouaches have had their own organic development, I try to make them as part of the ritual of my life. I’ve found large paper, five feet wide, that allows me to make larger work. The ideas in the gouaches do not run parallel with those of the wall drawings. They are quite different and follow their own logic. The wall drawings have ideas that can be transmitted to others to realize. Only I can do the gouaches.’ – Sol LeWitt

American artist and theorist Sol LeWitt was a key figure associated with the Conceptual and Minimalist art movements of the 1960s and '70s. Redefining the widespread understanding of what constituted an artwork, LeWitt explored these ideas through a wide range of different disciplines and mediums, including works on paper.

LeWitt’s works can be found in numerous public collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Centre National d’Art Moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Tate Gallery, London.