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\u201eParagraphs on Conceptual Art\u201d by Sol LeWitt is regarded to be one of the most important texts of conceptualism; it\u2019s because of this text the term got widely known and accepted. In his interview to Paul Cummings, LeWitt explains: \u201eIn fact, the only reason that I did any writing is that (I wrote about what I called Conceptual Art), is really the fact that the critics had not understood things very well. They were writing about Minimal Art, but no one defined it. Still to this day no one has written anything. People refer to me as a minimal artist, but no one has ever defined what it means or put any limits to where it begins or ends, what is and what isn’t. It’s just a convenient label. It still has no meaning. Now they write about post-minimalism; they’re putting another stratum on a thing that has no foundation. No one has bothered to define what post-minimalism is either\u201d (Meyer, James. Op.cit., p.3).<\/p>\n
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During the opening of the translation in the Kim?\u00a0library, the widely known paragraphs and sentences by Sol LeWitt were presented by the translator J\u0101nis Taurens; copies of the translation itself will be available for all the readers and visitors for a rather nominal price.
\nIn the meantime, in the Kim? lecture room a performance by Arturas Bum\u0161teinas, Lithuanian artist and composer, took place. Inspiring from the American artist John Baldessari (1931) and his version of the \u201eSentences..\u201d from 1972 when LeWitt\u2019s text was sung, using some popular melodies of that time, Bum\u0161teinas has created his own version of \u201creading\u201d these texts.<\/p>\n
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In his \u201cParagraphs on Conceptual Art\u201d LeWitt claims: \u201cSince the function of conception and perception are contradictory (one pre-, the other postfact) the artist would mitigate his idea by applying subjective judgment to it. If the artist wishes to explore his idea thoroughly, then arbitrary or chance decisions would be kept to a minimum, while caprice, taste and others whimsies would be eliminated from the making of the art. The work does not necessarily have to be rejected if it does not look well. Sometimes what is initially thought to be awkward will eventually be visually pleasing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) \u2013 an American artist and a theoretician; his name mostly connected with the conceptualism and minimalism in art.<\/p>\n
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J\u0101nis Taurens (1961) \u2013 studied architecture in The Riga Polytechnic Institute, and\u00a0 philosophy in the University of Latvia;\u00a0 PhD in Philosophy since 2005, associated professor in the Latvian Academy of Art since 2006; regular contributor to the main cultural magazines in Latvia; thinks and writes on philosophy, architecture and contemporary art.<\/p>\n
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Supporters: State Culture Capital Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Riga City Council, AB.LV, KOLONNA, DDB, VKN, GroGlass, \u00bc Satori, Egija Inzule, Arturas Bum\u0161teinas, Tautvydas Bajarkevi\u010dius","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On December 10, 2010, at 19:00 in the Kim?\u00a0library, an opening of the Latvian translation of the key texts by Sol LeWitt took place, as \u201dParagraphs on Conceptual Art\u201d (1967), and \u201eSentences on Conceptual Art\u201d (1969) have been translated into Latvian by J\u0101nis Taurens, professor and reviewer of contemporary arts. \u201eParagraphs on Conceptual Art\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-past-events","category-kim-events","category-past-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n