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PODCAST: On Sol LeWitt

Janet Passehl and Cristina Guadalupe

4 dic 2020

I was invited to talk about Sol LeWitt´s work and his relationship with architecture with Janet Passehl, who has been curator of the Sol LeWitt collection since 1991 and art historian Samuel Shapiro.

After reading my article for DAMn on her late husband Sol and his relationship to architecture, Carol LeWitt was so kind as to refer Zeit Contemporary to me, when they approached her with the idea of this podcast.

We had this very nice conversation with Janet Passehl, who has been curator of the Sol LeWitt collection since 1991. She worked closely with LeWitt towards the end of his life and continues to oversee his art collection and archive and Samuel Shapiro, art historian and moderator of the Podcast.


Super sweet and super exciting talk! We ran out of time !! Go to the link to listen to it.


Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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