News release
Drawing on Ideas
Montreal, September 9, 2013 - Until September 12, Concordia University is playing host to a singular creative event. Twenty-seven students will be producing wall drawings by Sol LeWitt (1927-2007), an American pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art. LeWitt’s works, which utilized simple and impersonal geometric forms to explore repetition and variations of a basic form or line as a way to achieve complex works will be on view in two downtown locations of Quartier Concordia.This comes in the wake of similar events organized by the Dia Art Foundation in New York City and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams MA.
The live drawing event marks the launch of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery’s 2013-14 programming year, the debut of the Department of Studio Art’s Drawing Lab Dessin along with the opening of the La Rentrée exhibitions and the arrival of Anthony Sansotta, artist and longtime assistant to Sol LeWitt.
Wall Drawing 289 (1978) - Sol Le Witt
As artistic director of the LeWitt Estate, Sansotta is actively engaged in transmitting LeWitt’s concepts/philosophy to students and emerging artists. He has worked on and had a supervisory role in every major retrospective of LeWitt's wall drawings, which include most major museums in America and Europe. Sansotta’s understanding and implementation of LeWitt's conceptual aesthetic gives him a special insight into his views on art and his cultivation and support of emerging artists.
The Concordia student artists will produce four of Le Witt’s wall drawings under Sansotta’s guidance. While the drawings are deceptively simple geometric structures, they are labour intensive endeavours demanding exacting means.
The wall drawings will be created inside the Engineering and Computer Science and Visual Arts Building (EV), 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West and in the VA Building, 1395 René-Lévesque Blvd. Two will be in the FOFA Gallery; two others will be produced on the second floor of the VA building. The sites are open to the public throughout the production period.
Anthony Sansotta and Studio Art professor François Morelli will lead media and public on a guided tour of the drawing sites.
Guided Tour
Thursday, September 12, 1 p.m.
FOFA Gallery – 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West
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