Title
Incomplete open cube 7/21
1974
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1974
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- baked enamel on aluminium
- Dimensions
- 106.7 x 106.7 x 106.7 cm
- Signature & date
Signed c.r. verso certificate of authenticity, black fibre-tipped pen "... /Sol LeWitt/ ...". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the John Kaldor Family Collection 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 349.2011
- Copyright
- © Estate of Sol LeWitt/ARS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Sol LeWitt
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
Sol LeWitt: Incomplete open cubes, John Weber Gallery, New York, 1974–1974
Opening transformations: the museum collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 12 Nov 1991–15 Feb 1992
From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 12 Dec 1995–17 Mar 1996
Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 18 Apr 2003–06 Jul 2003
Sol LeWitt: Your mind is exactly at that line, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Feb 2014–03 Aug 2014
Primary structures and speculative forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 2016–06 Aug 2017
Minimalism, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, 16 Nov 2018–14 Apr 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Nicholas Baume, From Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Jeff Koons: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Sydney, 1995, 36 (illus.), 84.
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Anthony Bond, John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Sol LeWitt', pg.100-131, Sydney, 2011, 102, 110-11 (colour illus.).
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Adam Free, Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Adelaide, 2003, 7 (colour illus.), 61. illustration is an installation view
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John Weber Gallery, Sol LeWitt: incomplete open cubes, New York, 1974, (illus.).
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