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Sol LeWitt<br />
Cube 2008<br />
The son of Russian immigrants, Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1928 and died in New York<br />
in 2007. The trailblazer of Concept Art has left a complex oeuvre consisting of wall drawings, gouaches,<br />
drawings, prints, photographs and books; he also created three-dimensional works. A key geometrical figure<br />
employed from his earliest days is the cube. The Cube, consisting of lime sandstone and measuring approximately<br />
5 x 5 x 5 metres, has been been erected behind Renzo Piano’s three hills of Zentrum Paul Klee’s Land-<br />
Art sculpture. The search for a permanent location for the Cube triggered an intense debate in Zürich in the<br />
1980s and 1990s on art in the public realm. Now it has found at least a temporary home in Bern.<br />
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