La página ideal de Sol LeWitt

Abstract

'The ideal page' is an essay about Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing # 1126 Whirls and Twirls 1 (2004), which can be seen on the ceilings of the lecturer's hall of the Panizzi library in Reggio Emilia, Italy. With this exciting vision on our minds, this essay takes us on a journey through time, although we stay in the same place, in Italy, recovering the palette of the fresco paintings from the early Renaissance, applied in Giotto's and Piero della Francesca's figures, both of them Le Witt was devoted for.The comparative reading which indeed occurs reversely, starts with murals, tainted in diluted colours, and continues with a revision of the minimal period, under the reference of Le Witt's understanding of the book Mallarmé as a multiple microcosm. From the word to the book, he regards it as a small universe reigned by a universal relationship: movement-space-time. This universe bares the key for Le Witt's interpretation of Mallarmé's stylistic composition, suggesting a regulated structure.