TOO LEWITT TO QUIT

Ariel Ramchandani — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:55:30 +0000

Sol LeWitt's retrospective at Mass Moca is bold and beautiful. The exhibit occupies an entire building on the Mass Moca campus till 2033. More importantly, the show's website rocks. It has almost every drawing in the exhibition mapped out, a blog and, best of all, time-lapse renderings of each drawing. It condenses the meticulous, collaborative on-site sketching, planning and painting of each piece into some pretty addictive videos. They capture what is so interesting about LeWitt's work: the carrying out, the making, the group effort.

The scale of these drawings--and the amount on view--is impressive, overwhelming and beautiful. All of the shapes and patterns made me feel like I had entered a giant three-storey kaliedoscope made on a computer, full of optical illusions and riotous colour.

The show is good for children, people who like carnivals, graphics, large things, geometry, primary colours and feeling cool. The show is bad for those with eye problems, colour blindness, aversions to warehouses, cold weather and small towns. Oh, and headaches. I got one, but I kind of liked it.

Do make a trip into the wilds to see this.

SOL LEWITT

TOO LEWITT TO QUIT