Sol LeWitt
(United States of America 09 Sep 1928–08 Apr 2007)
- Title
- Incomplete open cube 5/6
- Year
- 1974
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- baked enamel on aluminium
- Dimensions
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108.0 x 108.0 x 108.0cm
- Signature & date
- Signed Certificate of authenticity, black felt tip pen "Sol LeWitt".
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program - Accession number
- 347.2011
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sol LeWitt. ARS/Licensed by Viscopy
- Location
- Contemporary galleries
- Further information
The ‘Incomplete open cubes’ are a sequence of open-sided cube structures, each missing between one and nine of their sides. At once repetitive and varied, this series lays out 122 possible variations on the concept. The ‘Incomplete open cubes’ exemplify LeWitt’s conceptual practice and have been widely interpreted as embodying systematic rationality; they are based on an arithmetic concept which they then take to its logical extreme. While they are internally consistent, they also manifest an irrational, obsessive quality reflected in LeWitt’s own comment that ‘irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically’. Here he presents a binary between the rational and the irrational.
- Bibliography (3)
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Wayne Tunnicliffe (New Zealand; Australia) (Editor), John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011, 102, 110-11 (colour illus.).
Adam Free (Australia) (Author), Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Adelaide, 2003, 7 (colour illus.), 61. illustration is an installation view
John Weber Gallery (United States of America) (Author), Sol LeWitt: Incomplete open cubes, AUT, 1974, (illus.).
- Exhibition history (2)
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Sol LeWitt: Incomplete open cubes, John Weber Gallery, 1974–1974.
Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, 18 Apr 2003–06 Jul 2003.
