24th January – 28th March 1993
The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford present a retrospective of Sol LeWitt’s structures; the first major survey of this aspect of his work. Accompanied by a concurrent exhibit of his drawings, the gallery gives a holistic impression of LeWitt’s work across a broad period.
Though different in media, the two exhibitions expound the fundamental ethos of the artist. A figurehead for the Minimal and Conceptual art movements of the 1960s, LeWitt’s sculptures and drawings demonstrate the physical realisation of an idea, divorcing craftsmanship from the physicality of the art object. Despite traceable and uniting themes throughout the exhibition, it also charts the changing embodiments of the artist’s thought process, moving from open structures, often cubic in shape, to the irregular forms and pyramids of his later work.