Minimalist and conceptual artist, Sol LeWitt is born in 1928 in Hartford (Connecticut) in the United States. Student at Syracuse University, he travels in his youth in Europe where he studies with the masters of painting. In the 50’s, living in New York, he is a graphic designer for the newspaper "Seventeen" and works as a receptionist at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1966, he participates in many group exhibitions of major conceptual and minimalist art....

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  Biography of Sol Lewitt

  Minimalist and conceptual artist, Sol LeWitt is born in 1928 in Hartford (Connecticut) in the United States. Student at Syracuse University, he travels in his youth in Europe where he studies with the masters of painting. In the 50’s, living in New York, he is a graphic designer for the newspaper "Seventeen" and works as a receptionist at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1966, he participates in many group exhibitions of major conceptual and minimalist art. In 1967, he writes "Paragraphs of Conceptual Art," fundamental text on coonceptual art. He states the premises of the whole course of his work: the work is only the illustration of an idea, nor its material details, nor its limits in space are important. Sol LeWitt is famous for his "structures" (term used by the artist to describe his sculptures) in which the basic element is a cube that involves using a variety of combinations; he hopes to reappropriate the concept of rational logic. He is also the author of numerous drawings, some of which are made directly on the walls. His first retrospective is organized in 78-79 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Sol LeWitt dies in New York in 2007.
  

  

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