Sol LeWitt, Untitled – Arte all’Arte, 1997
Colle Val d’Elsa
The project created by Sol LeWitt in Colle Val d’Elsa was born after his repeted visits in the city, when he could understand and know better the whole structure and essence of Colle. The choice to partecipate at the 1997 edition of Arte all’Arte derived from a personal interior path of the artist that takes under analysis the connection between art and architecture: while the first one creates areas with a specific functional intent, the second one has no funtionality. When tridimentional art starts to incorporate some of architecture’s particularities its artistical function become less and less. because of this thoughts Sol LeWitt is considered one of the most important characters of Conceptual Art, which artistic modality is that the concept or the idea comes before anything. Says the artist that:
In Conceptual Art the idea is the most important aspect of the whole work. When an artist uses a Conceptual Art form it means that the whole project and all the decisions are taken before everything and the realization is just a mechanical fact. […] Conceptual Art isn’t theorethical and don’t explains theories: is intuitive. Conceptual artists are mystical rather than rational. They reach conclusions that logic cannot reach.
