by Stéphanie Vilayphiou
Sol LeWitt's «Wall Drawings» are drawings made through instructions giving a programmatic aspect to the pieces. Based on these instructions they are made by someone else than the artist, the artist even not going to the physical space of the piece.
«Sol LeWitt 2.0» is a modification of «Wall Drawing #340», in order to accentuate the programmatic aspect of the original piece: the set of instructions is parsed, instead of having one interpretation at the reception of the instructions, there's an interpretation each time an instruction is chosen.
Contrary to LeWitt's pieces, it is not the artist who send the instructions and some people executing them, but the other way around: the visitors of the exhibition are invited to send orders to the artist through a digital interface. LeWitt's conceptual pieces brought up the question of what is the art work: the idea or the production? «Sol LeWitt 2.0» comments on the notion of authorship in LeWitt's «Wall Drawings».
Six-part drawing.
The wall is divided horizontally and vertically into six equal parts.
1st part
On red, blue horizontal parallel lines, and in the center, a circle within which are yellow vertical parallel lines;
2nd part
On yellow, red horizontal parallel lines, and in the center, a square within which are blue vertical parallel lines;
3rd part
On blue, yellow horizontal parallel lines, and in the center, a triangle within which are red vertical parallel lines;
4th part
On red, yellow horizontal parallel lines, and in the center, a rectangle within which are blue vertical parallel lines;
5th part
On yellow, blue horizontal parallel lines, and in the center, a trapezoid within which are red vertical parallel lines;
6th part
On blue, red horizontal parallel lines, and in the center, a parallelogram within which are yellow vertical parallel lines.
The horizontal lines do not enter the figures.