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Podcast on Sol LeWitt

By Zeit Contemporary

I was invited by Carol LeWitt to join a podcast on Sol LeWitt to talk about his relationship with architecture, after having written the essay for DAMn magazine "The Architect without function."

In this episode of PERSPECTIVES, art historian Samuel Shapiro sits down with Janet Passehl and Cristina Guadalupe Galván to discuss LeWitt’s early work and the developmental arc of his career; the relationship he constructs between art, architecture, and language, LeWitt’s legacy as a collector, and his meaning for artists today.


I have to say that it was Dan Graham who really opened me to Sol LeWitt. Dan, in his early 20s, gave him his first solo show at the Jonh Daniels gallery he ran with a friend, after the Green gallery refused him out of overbooking! He was upset, Dan said 😊

The show looked very Donald Judd, and Sol was totally unhappy with it. But it actually was instrumental for him, in finding the structural elements that would plague the more sculptural aspect of his following production.

Dan said he stripped the work after the show, and in finding the inner wood structure of those boxes fell in love! And so the tridimensional meshes started appearing…


I trully believe that our best ideas come always from mistakes 😊

Project Gallery

Idée Fixe  is a Transdisciplinary Studio of Art and Architecture, run by Cristina Guadalupe Galván.

If in a website you normally find finished objects and products to share, what we are sharing here are more ideas – tested, developed and lived -- and their processes, that in many instances ended up happily physical. The creative process is about experimentation and the life that goes with it. The life and the people.

While building this site I came across a quote that explained it to me much better, by architects Josep Ferrando & Marta Poch, for their Quaderns d´Arquitectura, issue 273, THE THINKING TRADE:

      In a world dominated by images of the finished object and the immediacy of access to multimedia content, this issue of Quaderns sets out to reflect on the role of the architect –by means of their working processes, of the working methods (…) leaving the image of the built project on the background.

For artist Sol LeWitt, the process was also the work:

      The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. (...) It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned. 

Architect Josep Maria Sostres said something similar:

      The project, obviously as a mental conception, as a will to form, has a sovereignty, it has an internal power that must be imposed.

So this archive-website of Idee-Fixe, records more these ideas, processes and in many instances the collaborations that made them possible.

It´s about THE LIFE OF IDEAS.

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