“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art, 1969
ABOUT SOL is a documentary on the life and work of the American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. It centres on the reminiscences of his wife Carol. In Umbria, LeWitt studied the great Italian painters – Giotto, Piero della Francesca, frà Filippo Lippi – who are seemingly so distant from conceptual art and minimalism. According to his friend and gallerist Marilena Bonomo: “In Italy, Sol found the formula of painting, and he repurposed it in the geometry of his work”.
Journeying through her memories, Carol’s tale touches on Bach’s fugues, a Muybridge book of moving animals forgotten during a removal, a white house in an ancient oak wood, a room with thousands of audio cassettes catalogued by hand in Connecticut, and days spent watching a single picture, or, in his last months, meditating on light and shadow: Sol’s way of “getting out of life”.
produced by
Carla Fendi Foundation
Palazzo Collicola | Spoleto
Manna d’Oro Baptistery | Spoleto
Festival dei Due Mondi 64
2022
video / stopmotion / 4K DCP
