ARCHITECTURAL SCRIBBLING AND DRAWINGS
These days I do not make the effort more than once to look at something, an artist’s work or an installation unless it «speaks to me». It’s very rare that an installation does that. Sol Lewitt’s work which I discovered in New York - was it in the 80’s? - didn’t at all. I have never made an effort to go and see his wall paintings as I didn’t see the point. Laurent and Jerome would call them wall scribbles....and yet are they?
This is an unprecedented retrospective in Europe of Sol LeWitt’s work (1928-2007). This comes from the Pompidou Metz home page relating to the exhibition. "In the 13,000 square feet of Galerie 2, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is hosting a retrospective of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings on a scale never seen before in Europe. The selected thirty-three wall drawings, the largest group ever exhibited in Europe, span the artist's career from its beginnings to his final works. Chosen from the 1,200 wall drawings which LeWitt created between 1968 and 2007, t