Podcast on Sol LeWitt

I was invited by Carol LeWitt to join a podcast on Sol LeWitt to talk about his relationship with architecture, after having written the essay for DAMn magazine "The Architect without function."

In this episode of PERSPECTIVES, art historian Samuel Shapiro sits down with Janet Passehl and Cristina Guadalupe Galván to discuss LeWitt’s early work and the developmental arc of his career; the relationship he constructs between art, architecture, and language, LeWitt’s legacy as a collector, and his meaning for artists today.

I have to say that it was Dan Graham who really opened me to Sol LeWitt. Dan, in his early 20s, gave him his first solo show at the Jonh Daniels gallery he ran with a friend, after the Green gallery refused him out of overbooking! He was upset, Dan said 😊

The show looked very Donald Judd, and Sol was totally unhappy with it. But it actually was instrumental for him, in finding the structural elements that would plague the more sculptural aspect of his following production.

Dan said he stripped the work after the show, and in finding the inner wood structure of those boxes fell in love! And so the tridimensional meshes started appearing…

I trully believe that our best ideas come always from mistakes 😊