Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings to be Permanently Installed at Mass MoCA

LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS AT MASS MOCA

Conceptual Art pioneer Sol LeWitt (b. 1928) is getting a major, semi-permanent installation of his history-making wall drawings at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass., beginning next fall. Featuring 50 works dating from 1968 to the present, "Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" is to be sited in a three-story-tall, 27,000-square-foot industrial building, hand-picked by LeWitt and Mass MoCA director Joseph Thompson and situated at the heart of the institution’s industrial campus. Once it debuts, the exhibition is set to be open for a "minimum" of 25 years -- that is, until 2033.

Fundraising for the project is not 100 percent complete at this time, but preparations have begun. The architecture firm Bruner/Cott and Associates has created a scale model of the building, allowing LeWitt to determine the position of his drawings. Mass MoCA is partnering with the Yale University Art Galleries on the project, and the show’s opening coincides with the Yale University Press publication of the first catalogue raisonné of LeWitt’s wall drawings.