Sol Lewitt / Autobiography Sol Lewitt 1980

€1,200.00

LEWITT Sol (Hartford 1928 - New York 2007).

New York, Boston, Multiples Inc., Lois and Michael K. Torf, 1980, 26x26 cm., paperback with illustrated dust jacket, black title on the spine, pp. [30], artist’s book illustrated with 1,168 black and white images distributed on each page in a grid of 9 images, arranged across 128 pages. First edition.

[Bibliography: Moeglin Delcroix 2011: pag. 276; Sol Lewitt 1990; pp. 50/57 - 64); Maffei / De Donno 2009: (pp. 92-97); Tonini - Maderuelo 2014: pp. 44/45, pp. 136/137, cat. n. 54 e pag. 302].

LEWITT Sol (Hartford 1928 - New York 2007).

New York, Boston, Multiples Inc., Lois and Michael K. Torf, 1980, 26x26 cm., paperback with illustrated dust jacket, black title on the spine, pp. [30], artist’s book illustrated with 1,168 black and white images distributed on each page in a grid of 9 images, arranged across 128 pages. First edition.

[Bibliography: Moeglin Delcroix 2011: pag. 276; Sol Lewitt 1990; pp. 50/57 - 64); Maffei / De Donno 2009: (pp. 92-97); Tonini - Maderuelo 2014: pp. 44/45, pp. 136/137, cat. n. 54 e pag. 302].

“The black and white photographs [contact prints] depict the interior of his New York loft crammed with household objects, creating a sort of inventory of his property. There images provide information of a much more personal nature; there are, for example, close-up photographs of shelves showing the titles of books and music cassette labels, suggesting a narrative revealing something of the person who reads these books and listens to this music. In some cases, the narrative’s conceptual configuration is even more explicit: one grid groups together nine objects, including a passport, an artist’s book by Richard Long «Walk past Stones», and a set of postcards, which inevitably arouse reflections on the theme of travel. In others, the images showing family portraits and memorabilia evoking the artist’s personal history”. (Tonini Bruno in «Sol Levitt: libro. El concepto como arte», Santander, Ediciones La Bahia, 2014)