131 variations
By: Fleur van Dodewaard
Publisher: Fw: Amsterdam
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789490119249
Subjects: Catalogs; Artistic Photography; Influence
Other titles: One three one variations
Description: 131 Variations is a reinterpretation of Sol Lewitt's "122 Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes". Fleur van Dodewaard set about recreating and photographing the piece seeking to produce an exact copy. But in the process things went wrong: some cubes went missing, others appeared double and previously unknown variants arose. With her "131 Variations" Van Dodewaard demonstrates that the 122 variations listed and presented by Lewitt did not represent an exhaustive spectrum of all conceivable possibilities. Accordingly, the "failure" consciously introduces moments of arbitrariness, inconsistency and irrationality into this aleatory process to allow for an element of coincidence, thereby challenging mathematical logic.