Sol LeWitt: Open Structure

About the exhibition

Korea's first large-scale survey of Sol LeWitt, a pioneer of conceptual art, organized by the museum with The LeWitt Estate. It follows a show at MOT Tokyo and has been expanded for Seoul.

Forty-five works are on view, including 13 wall drawings made anew for the museum's galleries from the artist's instructions, along with structures, paintings, prints, photographs and archival material. The route moves from early structures to late color works. Look for Wall Drawing #882B and Wall Drawing #784 (1995), a color ink wash.

A free audio guide is available through the APMA Guide app, and the museum offers lectures and curator-led tours.

About the artist

Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928 and died in New York in 2007. After studying at Syracuse and serving in the Korean War, LeWitt moved to New York and worked at MoMA. The museum calls LeWitt one of the defining figures of Conceptual art, and the 1967 text Paragraphs on Conceptual Art says "the idea becomes a machine that makes the art." The first wall drawing appeared at Paula Cooper's inaugural show in 1968. Wall drawings are remade from written instructions for each showing; here, 23 art students from Korean universities made 13 of them with guidance from the LeWitt Estate.

Sources: Paula Cooper Gallery: Sol LeWitt · Amorepacific: exhibition news