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Sol LeWitt Upside Down - Open Modular Cubes (Small), Expanded 958 Times 2015

Artwork Sol LeWitt Upside Down - Open Modular Cubes (Small), Expanded 958 Times this artwork made of Aluminium Venetian blinds, aluminium hanging structure, powder coating, steel wire, created in 2015-01-01
Accession No.
2015.181a-
Date Created
2015
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
Dimensions for caption: 560 x 1052.5 x 562.5cm

Actual dimensions: 1012 blinds: 70 x 70cm (each); 637.5 x 1127 x 707cm (installed)
Media Category
Installation
Medium
Aluminium Venetian blinds, aluminium hanging structure, powder coating, steel wire
Place Created
Seoul
Credit Line
Commissioned for APT8. Purchased 2015 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

This work consists of white Venetian blinds, arranged into grids and suspended from the ceiling in an inverted and expanded rendition of the ‘open modular cube’ structures, signature works of North American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt. Haegue Yang appropriates, upscales and upturns this classic motif. Where LeWitt’s cubes were solid-edged, open-sided and made-to-order from industrial producers, Yang’s are impressionistic, created by arrangements of ready-made office blinds whose overlapping slats appear both open and closed, depending on the position of the viewer. Using common workplace materials, Yang moves LeWitt’s aesthetic propositions into the world of everyday experience.
 

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

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