Sol LeWitt as a collector

Sol LeWitt collector. An artist and his artists shows some one hundred works from the collection of the American artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007).

The author of some of the most influential texts on conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is known for his serial three-dimensional structures and for the one thousand two hundred wall drawings he produced between 1968 and 2007. He was also a collector and this aspect of his life sometimes influenced his own artistic output.

Sol LeWitt assembled a remarkable collection of more than 4,000 works, thus joining a long line of artist-collectors such as Arman, Robert Rauschenberg, Alfred Stieglitz or Giorgio Vasari. Most of the works in the LeWitt Collection came from trades with other artists, in particular young artists whom he encouraged and supported this way.

The exhibition focuses on minimal and conceptual works on paper, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. It represents the diversity of the LeWitt Collection, ranging from mid-19th century Japanese prints to Aboriginal painting, as well as scores and recordings of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Steve Reich.

This presentation of the LeWitt Collection at Centre Pompidou-Metz features a soundtrack of ten sound pieces composed by Sébastien Roux, directly inspired by Sol LeWitt's wall drawings shown in Galerie 2, and texts written by the artist Marcelline Delbecq.

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Exhibition produced in collaboration with the LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut (United States) and in partnership with M.A.D.R.E. - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples (Italy)