Null Sol LeWitt 1928-2007
Wall Drawing Nr. 737
Color ink wash
205 x 530 cm

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Sol LeWitt 1928-2007 Wall Drawing Nr. 737 Color ink wash 205 x 530 cm

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Sol LeWitt 1928-2007 Wall Drawing Nr. 737 Color ink wash 205 x 530 cm

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Estim. 35 000 - 40 000 CHF

JOSEPH MARIONI (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1943). "Yellow painting. 2001. Acrylic on canvas. Signed, titled and dated on the back. Size: 107 x 102 cm. From the seventies onwards, Joseph Marioni began an aesthetic exploration of the limits of painting. In monochrome paintings such as this one, there is a special tension between colour, light and support: Marioni repeatedly applies layers of satin colour on the painting in such a way that, depending on the incidence of light and the viewer's position, they reveal the underlying layers of colour. The painting of the American painter Joseph Marioni falls within the sphere of influence of the New York Radical Painting group, with which he shares above all the research into the parameters of painting. Joseph Marioni's works, created in a characteristic manner since 1970, combine to form a conceptual oeuvre with a resounding aesthetic that allows us to ask fundamental questions about the genre of painting. Marioni has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His works are represented in major private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Kolumba (Museum) in Cologne, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Kunstmuseum St. Joseph Marioni lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions (selection): 2006: Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, USA 2007: Liquid Light, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, USA 2007: University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, New Bedford, USA 2008: Liquid Light, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA. 2008: Drawing Color - between Black and White, Mark Müller Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2009: Beneath the Seen, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, USA 2010: Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium 2011: 90 Years of New: Joseph Marioni, The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA 2012: Painting, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2013: Marioni/MacPherson, UQ Art Museum, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Estim. 7 000 - 8 000 CHF

SOL LEWITT (Connecticut, 1928 - New York, 2007). "Not straight lines", 2003. Set of 6 etchings, issue 19/20. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Measurements: 25 x 25 cm (u.c.); 41 x 41 cm (frames). In the "Not Straight Lines" series, LeWitt develops parallel irregular lines that play with the ambiguity between improvisation and meticulous study of patterns. Using minimalist techniques, LeWitt creates compositions that may appear simple at first glance, but reveal a complexity in the interplay of forms and spaces. LeWitt dedicated his entire oeuvre to delving conceptually and graphically into the exploration of patterns and systems through geometry and repetition. The broken lines convey a sense of fluidity and energy that we visually associate with the pulse of the hand and the emotions involved in creation. These lines thus become a kind of seismograph, a device metaphorically associated with creative intuition. An artist linked to several movements, among them conceptual art and minimal, Sol LeWitt expressed himself mainly through painting, drawing, photography and structures. Born into a Jewish family of Russian immigrants, after receiving a BFA from Syracuse University in 1949 he began a series of trips around Europe, where he was influenced by the great masters of painting. Settling in New York in the fifties, he focused his interest on graphic design, working for Seventeen Magazine. During the following decade the artist worked at the MoMA in New York, another experience that would mark the development of his work. During these years, LeWitt became one of the main representatives of conceptual art, which emphasizes that the idea, and not its physical form, is fundamental. He was one of the pioneers of this movement, as well as one of its most prominent theoreticians, and his work has also been related to minimalism. From 1965 LeWitt will be the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. His works include two- and three-dimensional works, from wall paintings (more than 1,200) to photographs, drawings and sculptures of all kinds, including towers, pyramids, geometric forms and progressions. Sol LeWitt frequently used open, modular structures based on the cube, a key form in the development of his language. In 1978, the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated his first retrospective exhibition to him. LeWitt is currently represented in that museum, as well as in the Guggenheim in New York and Bilbao, the Kunstmuseum in Basel, the Palazzo Forti in Verona, the SMAK in Ghent, the Tate Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery in Washington, the Metropolitan in New York and the National Gallery of Australia, among many others.

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