Incomplete, Complete.In 1974, five years before Erno Rubik's maddening little puzzle hit the shelves, Sol LeWitt Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism. His media were predominantly painting, drawing, and structures (a term he preferred in opposition to sculpture). invented his own Variations on an Incomplete Open Cube. This ultimate work of serialism serialism Use of an ordered set of pitches as the basis of a musical composition. The terms 12-tone music and serialism, though not entirely synonymous, are often used interchangeably. , for which professional mathematicians were consulted, proposed a sequence of 122 different ways to evoke without completing the six planes and twelve edges that define a cubic volume. Curated by Nicholas Baume, "Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes" will resurrect the artist's vast project, not only with two-dimensional working sketches and drawings, but with the resulting 3-D structures, scattered like gossamer thoughts throughout the museum (Wadsworth Atheneum The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States and largest in the state of Connecticut. It is located in historic downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital. , Hartford, CT, Jan. 27-Apr. 29; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, July 8-Aug. 26; Cleveland Museum of Art Located in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, the internationally renowned Cleveland Museum of Art has a permanent collectionof more than 40,000 objects in 70 galleries. . Seot. 23-Dec. 30; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 18-Apr. 14, 2002). |
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