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Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes

Conceptual Art


<I>Incomplete Open Cube</I>
Cat. no. 59,
Incomplete Open Cube
8/11, 1974. Painted
aluminum. 42 x 42 x 42 in.
Private collection,
San Francisco

Seriality

…a way of creating art that did not rely on the whim of the moment but on consistently thought out processes that gave results that were interesting and exciting.
--Sol LeWitt, 1984

Artists have often worked in series: think of Claude Monet's haystacks, painted at different times of the day and year, or Andy Warhol's varieties of soup cans. LeWitt's use of seriality is different, however, as it is deployed as an internal logic that will produce, once its parameters are set, a precisely incremental series of variations. Each variation has thus been determined objectively. The series could not have been arrived at solely through an act of subjective imagination.


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