1928, Hartford,USA – 2007, New York, USA
Straight lines in four directions and all their possible combinations, 1973
Etching on paper, full set of 15, 26.7 x 26.7 cm each
Edition of 25 copies with 10 AP, Publisher: Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, Printer: Crown Point Press, Oakland; inscription on the back of the print: Lewit S
Acquisition: Gift
Reference: from 03154 to 03169 (03157)
Biography
Solomon “Sol” LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including conceptual art and minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and “structures” (a term he preferred instead of “sculptures”) but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, installation, and artist’s books. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965. The first biography of the artist, Sol LeWitt: A Life of Ideas, by Lary Bloom, was published by Wesleyan University Press in the spring of 2019
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1939, Skopje, Macedonia
Remnants from a Summer Night, 1967
Oil on canvas, 94 x 94 cm
Acquisition: Purchase
Reference: 01667
Biography
Dušan Perčinkov (born 13 April 1939 in Skopje) is a Macedonian painter, graphic artist and art teacher, the most significant representative of geometric painting and one of the most autochthonous artists, credited with shaping a number of painters of the younger generation.
Dušan Perčinkov graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (1963). He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. He represented Macedonia at the Venice Biennale (1978). In his paintings and graphics, he carefully and in an original way observes the environment (landscape, urban areas), creating initially soft surrealistic representations with simple signs and shapes (Sea, 1963; Imaginary Landscape, 1967).
In the late 1960s, he turned to abstract, strictly geometric compositions with pastel colors, without an obvious counterpart in fine art (Landscape with Traces of the Sun, 1967; Tide, 1968). In the next stage, he replaced the delicate colors with intense ones and introduced symbolic associative elements (Landscape that Tremble I, 1972; Sunset, 1975). At the same time, he published graphic maps with sophisticated, complex and conceptually thought-out content (Nothing, 1991; Sums, 1992).
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