Seoul hosts an exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s conceptual art
The Amorepacific Museum in Seoul, South Korea, is presenting the exhibition “Sol LeWitt: Open Structure,” dedicated to nearly five decades of work by American artist and one of the pioneers of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt. The exhibition features his structures, paintings, printed works, archival materials and wall drawings recreated according to the artist’s instructions. This was reported by The Korea Herald.
From cubic structures to colorful forms
The exhibition covers LeWitt’s work from his early open cubic structures to later pieces with more varied colors and forms. The project was organized jointly with The LeWitt Estate. It is based on a traveling exhibition that originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, while in Seoul it was supplemented with a selection of works and archival materials from the Amorepacific Museum.
In LeWitt’s conceptual practice, lines, geometric forms, colors and spatial relationships develop according to predetermined rules rather than through subjective composition. Such rules can produce different physical results depending on the space and the participants carrying out the instructions.
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Wall drawings recreated by students
Wall drawings occupy a central place in the exhibition. Twenty-three students from Korean universities and postgraduate institutions were involved in creating them as part of the APMA Makers program. They worked together with seven members of The LeWitt Estate.
All 30 participants worked on the 1998 piece “Wall Drawing No. 869A.” One of them began with an indirect black line, while the others tried to reproduce it as accurately as possible in red, yellow and blue. LeWitt’s instruction left room for variations, so the work changed during the process of execution.
After the exhibition ends, the wall drawings are destroyed, but the works are not considered lost: they are defined by the instructions according to which the works can be recreated in another space and under different conditions. The exhibition will run until February 28 at the Amorepacific Museum in the Yongsan-gu district.
