Art on Screen: "Sol LeWitt"

SOL LEWITT + Leah Kolb and Stuart Horodner

WED, NOV 6 @ 7:15PM | ON SALE SOON

"'Sol LeWitt' will help you understand the art it depicts and allow you to appreciate those aspects of it that surpass understanding.” —A.O. Scott, New York Times

The central action in "Sol LeWitt," Chris Teerink’s eye-catching and informative documentary about that great American conceptual artist, is the execution of one of his pieces — “Wall Drawing 801: Spiral” — on the interior wall of a vast, bell-shaped room at a Dutch museum.

LeWitt, who died in 2007, believed that an artist’s work was primarily done not with the hands, but with the mind. “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art,” he wrote in his manifesto-ish “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” and a large part of his oeuvre consists of instructions, at once precise and enigmatic, for making sculptures, paintings, and drawings that are geometrically complex and visually powerful in ways that surpass understanding.

ABOUT LEAH KOLB AND STUART HORODNER

Leah Kolb is the founder of 2nd Story, a curatorial space in downtown Lexington. Stuart Horodner is the director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum.

ABOUT ART ON SCREEN

Hundreds of films explore the arts and the lives of artists. A pilot project made possible through the generous support of Jackie Hamilton, ART ON SCREEN seeks to broaden an interest in the arts through the creative pairing of films about art and artists with entertaining discussions by notable speakers from the world of art and art history.

We think of ART ON SCREEN as ‘TED Talks’ goes to the movies, combining great films with engaging and entertaining speakers, in order to appeal not only to art aficionados but also to those who find the art world a bit intimidating or mystifying.

ART ON SCREEN was developed in consultation with Stuart Horodner, director of the University of Kentucky Art Museum and Leah Kolb, founder of 2nd Story, a curatorial space in downtown Lexington.