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Sol LeWitt, born 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, lived and worked in New York and near Spoleto (Italy); he died in 2007. LeWitt is considered one of the most influential practitioners of conceptual art, a form in which the essence of the work is the artist´s idea rather than the craftsmanship of execution. LeWitt saw the artist in a role analogous to that of the architect, who designs a building but does not build it. He developed his artistic vocabulary from basic geometric structures and their transformation by using - as is typical for the minimalist tendencies of his generation - these fundamental elements as regular repeated modular units or as series which explore a range of possibilities in a logical, preset sequence. LeWitt was fascinated by the multiplicity of things, especially the multiplicity of things that can be generated by a simple idea.
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