FROM MONTELUCO TO SPOLETO
DECEMBER 1976
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt: FROM MONTELUCO TO SPOLETO: DECEMBER 1976. Eindhoven and Weesp: Van Abbemuseum and Openbaar Kunstbezit, 1984. First edition. No text. A near-fine softcover book with printed stiff wrappers: top left corner is slightly bumped. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. 10 x 10 softcover book with 40 pages and 360 color photographs in grids of 9. This artist book accompanied a 1984 exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The photographs were all taken in December 1976 between two towns in Umbria and subsequently grouped nine to a page. Mr. Grid does it again!
From the web site for the The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: LeWitt recognized early the potential benefits in distributing artistic production through low-cost publications: books offer permanence to the artistic moment that is lacking in a scheduled gallery setting; they can allow an artist deeper and more complete control of their presentation; their audience is at the same time more far reaching than an exhibition and yet very intimate to the individual viewer holding the object in his hand. As a founder in the early 1970s of Printed Matter, a bookstore devoted entirely to artistsą books and their creation, he championed affordable books as an artistic vehicle, both for his peers and for himself.
While the use of artistsą books fit nicely with the qualities of his system-driven conceptual and minimal works, they also proved uniquely suited for his little-known photographic work. Despite the representational element inherent in photography, LeWitt uses the nature of the book format to organize his images to reflect the seriality and systems that permeate his non-representational works.
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