camminando | NYC: Sol LeWitt "Structures, 1965-2006" at City Hall Park

A great encounter while I was walking uptown on Broadway, emerging from the belly of New Amsterdam: Sol LeWitt "Structures, 1965-2006" at City Hall Park.

Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) is one of the prophets of minimalism and art based on geometry, therefore, one of my favorite artists. His work spans from two-dimensional drawings and prints to three-dimensional artwork such as wall installations, sculptures (defined structures). Almost all his oeuvre is based on the repetition of a vocabulary of simple (primitive) shapes: triangles, circles, squares, cubes and prisms. Almost all of the above, on view at the City Hall Park exhibition, organized by the Public Art Fund.




Quite in contrast with typical Sol LeWitt's work is one his latest workd "Splotch" (2005). The description instead remarks that the work, in spite of its visual appearance is generated by a rigorous process based on laws of projections, combining extrusions of two-dimensional shapes with color. The work was also fabricated from a three-dimensional digital model —quite a déjà vu...

Public art, geometry and minimalism in a green space: what can I ask more?

Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
City Hall Park
between Broadway, Park Row and Chambers Streets
May 24 - Dec 2, 2011
Mon – Sun: 6 am – 9 pm

Exhibitions NYC | May in Chelsea

My picks from yesterday walk, in a sunny and energetic May day in NYC. Visuals only as usual.

Leon Kossoff at Mitchell Innes & Nash

Keith Haring at Barbara Gladstone

Gillian Wearing at Tanya Bonakdar


Sol LeWitt at Paula Cooper


Tania Mouraud at Cueto Project



Jaume Plensa at Galerie Lelong

Exhibitions NYC | Becoming Nostalgic of the Sixties and Seventies: Art and Meaning

The exhibitions I enjoyed ---and found most meaningful--- in this vibrant Fall art season in New York are all related to art practices mainly from the sixties and seventies, including conceptualism, minimalism and land art. Is it by coincidence?

Nancy Holt: Sightlines

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Nancy Holt: Sightlines, a thematic exhibition of the artist's work at the intersection of land art, architecture, photography and video, focusing on interventions on the landscape and its perceptions.

Dan Flavin @ Paula Cooper

An exhibition of four early Dan Flavin works, produced between 1964 and 1975, including a “corridor” piece of pink and yellow lights.

Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long and Mario Merz @ Barbara Gladstone

Section Cinéma,Marcel Broodthaers @ MarianGoodman

Section Cinéma, 1972, includes the seventh section of Broodthaers’ celebrated museum, Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, founded in 1968 with the “Section XIXème siècle” in Brussels and other sections realized in Brussels, Antwerp, Zeeland, Le Coq, Düsseldorf and Kassel during a four year period from 1968 to 1972.

Artists at MaxKansas City 1965-1974: Hetero-Holics and Some Women Too @ Loretta Howard Gallery