Artist field note

Sol Lewitt

The instruction can be the artwork.

Appears inConceptual Art
Serial Project No. 1 (ABCD) by Sol Lewitt — Documentation of the work
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Serial Project No. 1 (ABCD)

1966

Open cubes follow a predetermined system. Composition is generated by rules rather than intuition.

The five in one idea

LeWitt shifted authorship from the artist’s hand to the artist’s proposition - without making the result visually indifferent.