Storm King Art Center
Old Pleasant Hill Rd
845.534.3115
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Sol LeWitt, Five Modular Units, Courtesy Storm King Art Center
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May 14, 2008 – Nov 15, 2008
Wednesdays–Sundays (11am–5:30pm)
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$10
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Note: The grounds remain open until 8pm on Saturdays through August 30. Starting Sunday, November 2, Storm King closes at 5pm.
In the laboratory of conceptual art, Sol LeWitt is the mad scientist. Engineered from instructions, his hard-lined geometric sculptures are austere, but the scribbled preparatory notes that spawned them reveal the obsessions of a kook. In 1974's whimsically titled series Incomplete Open Cubes, for instance, LeWitt scratched out every possible iteration (122 in all) of a cube missing one or more of its sides. Storm King — with a permanent collection of sculpture well worth the hour's drive from Manhattan — displays three examples from this series alongside LeWitt's signature work Five Modular Units, which cuts a striking white contrast against the sculpture park's scenery, like a jungle gym in a galaxy far, far away.
