Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #47, 1970 Interview with Rosario Peiró April 2015 The Wall Drawing concept was the best medium for giving expression to LeWitt’s radical ideas, and these works would become the most characteristic in his output. In a 1970 text under the same name, Wall Drawings, the artist explained that his approach consisted of making a work “as two-dimensional as possible”. In accordance with his minimalist, and therefore reductionist, thinking, LeWitt felt the most natural way to work was directly on the wall, rather than on a “construction” which would later be hung on the wall. This enabled him to create works with a minimum of materials, allowing the drawing to become an intrinsic part of the architecture of the gallery and causing the viewer to interact spatially given that they would only make sense of the work through experiencing the actual exhibition space. The Collection
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #47, 1970 April 2015 The first installation of Wall Drawing #47 was drawn in June 1970 by Kazuko Miyamoto, at the Philippe-Guy Wood Residence in Vasenaz, Geneva. The Museo Reina Sofía acquired the piece in 2009 and the first installation was in 2011. The current installation, carried out between 3 November and 10 December 2014, is on a wall 5 metres high and 15.8 metres wide. The draughtspersons are Roland Lusk and Andrew Colbert, under the direction of John Hogan, with the participation of six assistants. Wall Drawing #47 requires meticulous work to ensure uniform pressure of the pencil on the support. It is finished with a water-based varnish applied by a specialist from the Sol LeWitt Studio and an assistant. The Collection
play pause stop 00:00 00:00 Download Francis Frascina, Serge Guilbaut, Richard Leeman, Karen Kurczynski, Alessandro del Puppo, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco and Gabriela Switek Concluding round-table April 30, 2015 Activities Seminars and conferences
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Ree Morton Be a Place, Place an Image, Imagine a Poem May 2015 The work of Ree Morton (Ossining, New York, 1936 – Chicago, 1977) can be found in the specific art scene in the USA in the early 1970s, characterised by a strong reaction to post-war Abstract Expressionism, reflected in Minimal art, on the one hand, and Conceptual Art and Pop Art on the other. Nevertheless, her work is more akin to the art strategies that emerged around movements such as Pattern and Decoration, Fiber Art or, in Lucy R. Lippard’s definition, “Eccentric Abstraction”. Exhibitions
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A study of the work Portrait of Joella by Salvador Dalí May 2015 After the intervention project that has been taken in the work Portrait of Joella by Salvador Dali, this important surrealist object returns to the Collection galleries.Portrait of Joella, is a pictorial intervention of Salvador Dalí on a portrait of the gallerist´s wife, Joella Bayer in 1933. It is a work in full development of his paranoiac-critical method, a proposal to allow associations of images with their hidden meanings, often related to sexuality and death.This video, produced by the Museum, collects the interesting conservation process carried out, in which those responsible for the intervention explain the study's findings. The Collection
Yasmil Raymond and Manuel Borja-Villel about Carl Andre. Sculpture as Place, 1958-2010 May 2015 Curator Yasmil Raymond and Manuel Borja–Villel talk about this retrospective of Carl Andre, that features around 200 sculptures and works on paper produced over the past 50 year. This selection help us to understand his progressive concept of “sculpture as form, sculpture as structure, sculpture as place” and, in addition the exhibition focuses on the key role of language in Andre’s artistic practices via a large number of visual and concrete poetry series, textual collages and works on paper and, for the first time in 20 years, an exceptional group of works entitled Dada Forgeries, expounding his jocular relationship with Duchamp’s readymades. Exhibitions
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