Sol LeWitt

Sol LeWitt, a pioneer of Conceptual art, rejected the value traditionally placed on the artist’s hand and instead allowed the concept of a piece, often related to mathematical systems or instructions, to generate the work. Six Towers is part of his “Open Cube” series, which uses simple progressions of modular units to create complex geometric structures. The sequential configuration of Six Towers emits an optical vitality that blurs the boundaries between the architectural form of the sculpture and the spaces within and around it.

Six Towers, achieve an astonishing level of complexity using a very limited formal vocabulary. The restraint of the 1970s gave way to greater optical play as the cubic modules became finer and denser in their layering in the 1980s. In the later works, the overall form is more prominent than the individual cubes, so that the configurations suggest elaborate architectural complexes. In the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, LeWitt created a series of white, open, modular structures based on the cube.