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...works by LeWitt, Ryman, Artschwager and Buren were sealed up inside these steel boxes. Last week they were finally unwrapped and we were there to watch...
...Stephen Antonakos, an artist best-known for his neon installations, invited four of his friends and colleagues-the artists Sol LeWitt, Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren and Robert Ryman-to fill steel boxes he had mailed to them. Each signed a contract, agreeing not to disclose to anyone the contents of their respective packages until the year 2000. All of the artists save Ryman sent their boxes back to Antonakos without touching the exteriors, which were loosely painted with a white wash. Ryman, true to form, could not resist the aesthetic qualities of his monochrome box, so he covered it with...
...empirical discovery of facture. He has said that "there is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint." Artschwager (whose work was exhibited in the Carpenter Center earlier this year) creates objects, often boxes, with no clear function, and painted images based on commercial sources. LeWitt has been an avatar of the conceptual art movement since the 1960s. His geometric constructions, based on mathematical models, often take their form from instructions which the artist has dictated on paper, leaving their execution as an afterthought. Buren has been operating since the 1960s with a vocabulary...
...Ryman had signed a glass artist's palette, complete with dried patches of mixed paint, and wrapped it in the linen he used to stretch his canvases. LeWitt enclosed a tiny white cube, in which was a scrap of paper with ambiguous instructions: "a line, not straight, corner to corner." Artschwager created within the frame of steel a wooden box that opened onto ever smaller boxes. Buren avoided the responsibility of prediction altogether and had given his box to a friend to fill. Inside, the other artist had lined the box with Buren's signature red-and-white stripes...
...Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000, with Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Sol LeWitt and Robert Ryman is on display through March 12 at the Rose Art Museum on the Brandeis University campus, at 415 South St. in Waltham. You can get there by taking the Fitchburg line of the commuter rail from Porter Square to Brandeis/Roberts. Hours are Tue. through Sun., 12 to 5 p.m., and Thu., 12 to 9 p.m. Admission is free...