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Floor 5: Sol LeWitt Open Cube Interpretive Space: QR Code 535

Overview

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**Welcome to the Sol LeWitt Interpretive Gallery** In this gallery we invite you to dive deeper LeWitt’s thinking and process through a variety of materials, including books, posters, and other ephemera; accessible touch objects; and a video showing past wall drawings in production. Special focus is devoted to LeWitt’s 1974 Incomplete Open Cube series, which captures the artist’s distinct system-based approach. Feeling inspired? Visit Co-Lab nearby on this floor to experiment with similar ideas. > “The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.” > —Sol LeWitt, 1967

Objects

1 object in the order you'll encounter them from this entrance. Select an object to view details.

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1980
Aluminum and paint
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1989

Visual Description

Spanning about 16 feet in length and rising to about 3.5 ft, this aluminum-and-paint sculpture is a pale, off-white, open-frame structure built from repeated square modules. The piece's rectangular areas are defined by a grid of thin, evenly spaced metal struts, creating transparent volumes with no solid areas. Along its length, the configuration alternates between larger, cube-like enclosures and narrower, lower sections, producing stepped areas of various heights and widths. Several portions form U- and L-shaped perimeters, with interior voids; other segments project outward, ending in smaller cubic clusters. There is a uniform paint finish, and the latticework produces layered squares and shadows that shift from openness at the ends to thicker grid intersections in the larger central masses.

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