Sol LeWitt (Hartford, USA, 1928 – New York, USA, 2007) stated in 1971: “All the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as much a work of Art as any finished product.” Unlike any other artist from his generation, he worked on the topic of ideas’ centrality and artworks’ potential immateriality, so much that others executed his Wall Drawings, following his clear and rigorous instructions, in a process conceptually resembling the input of software. Those exhibited here were written to be created for the first time in 1973 at Lisson Gallery in London. However, passing from the purely conceptual and informative plane of what is certified to that of the material execution, these radical artworks seem to indicate the impossibility of total dematerialization.
Sol LeWitt