Noire Gallery is pleased to present “Hidden Secrets in Monferrato” .
The space, frescoed by Sol LeWitt’s two wall drawings, hosts site-specific projects by international artists who are invited to deal with this intimate and memory-rich venue. On the walls of the small church the Wall Drawing, presented for the first time in 1972 in Documenta 5 in Kassel, has been faithly completed with hard graphite like the first works of the 70’s so that it becomes as much part of the walls as possible.They are not straight lines, horizontal which do not touch and not straight lines, vertical which do not touch. Dedicated to Eva Hesse in the year of her death, the artist introduces the ”lines which are not straight” to recall the passing of minimalism by geometrical constrictions.The second Wall Drawing is a pyramid realised by putting various layers of ink on top of each other. The presence of colour in the choice of inks made into a magical mix takes on the appearance of a fresco which recalls the artist’s love for Italy.
The artists invited to confront the space over the years are: Giovanni Anselmo, Joan Armleder, Mel Bochner, Alan Charlton, Ethan Cook, Jonathan Monk, Richard Nonas, Giulio Paolini, David Tremlett.
San Sebastiano,
Torino, Italy
