LeWitt described feeling a ‘great affinity’ for Kngwarreye’s work and went on to become an avid collector of paintings by her, Petyarre and other Central Desert artists. It reveals the influence Australian Central Desert painters had on his practice, including Kngwarreye, whose work he first encountered at the Venice Biennale in 1997. LeWitt’s enormous Wall drawing #955, Loopy Doopy (red and purple) 2000 is installed in the Kaldor Hall on the ground level of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ historic South Building. It also introduces three musical commissions, each developed collaboratively by an American musician and an Aboriginal musician: Chuck Johnson and JWPATON Steve Gunn and amby downs and Claire Rousay and E Fishpool. This exhibition, presented in collaboration with Kaldor Public Art Projects, places LeWitt’s work in conversation with paintings by Anmatyerr artists Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Gloria Tamerre Petyarre. He often likened his process to that of a composer whose music acquired subtle differences with each new performance. Many of his artworks were conceived as sets of instructions that could be executed by others. Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) was a pivotal figure in 20th-century American art whose ideas continue to have an impact on artists around the world.
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