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Sol LeWitt’s Chester, Connecticut studio was the American centre for his practice. A six-hundred square foot space designed by LeWitt in the early 90’s, the studio was illuminated by floor-to- ceiling windows. In 2019/ 2022 and 2024, Barberis worked out of the Chester studio, exploring the history of her thirty-year friendship with LeWitt and tracing the confluences between her practice and his.
Next Wednesday evening from 5:30PM, Irene Barberis is presenting an engaging lecture on LeWitt’s studio and making practices, his influential role in shaping contemporary art and her seven residencies out of his Chester Studio, Spoleto studio and his Praiano studio as part of The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt at RMIT
Gallery.
Reserve your spot via the link in our bio!


Images sourced from Sol LeWitt and Irene Barberis:
Exploring the Chester Studio - A Visual Documentation, 2022. Metasenta Publishing

Opening tonight RMIT Gallery. All welcome 5.30 - 7.30pm.
Caption 1. for Janet and Irene:

Installation view, The Concentric
Influences of Sol LeWitt, Janet Passehl, Number Fourteen, 2024, Irene Barberis, Choreographing Colour + Choreology Notations (2024/2024), RMIT
Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Curator: Irene Barberis. Photo by
Christian Capurro.

Caption 2. for Wilma and Fransje

Installation view, Wilma Tabacco,
Entry/Exit, 2012 and Fransje Killaars,
Full Color 2023 (for Sol), 2023 in The
Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt,
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Curator: Irene Barberis
Photo by Christian Capurro.

I’m very pleased to invite everyone to the first Australian exhibition of the ‘Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Part 1’ at the RMIT Gallery, 30 May - 27 July . Opening is on June 6. ‘The Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Ten Countries’ commences in each selected country with an exhibition of works by the Core Artists. When the research is complete - 12 to 18 months - Part 2 of the LeWitt project is exhibited with a unique Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing for each country. My great thanks to the LeWitt family for their wonderful generosity and fabulous support. I thank all at RMIT Gallery and the RMIT School of Art for their generous and fantastic support and to the amazing core artists whose works are superb…Janet Passehl, Fransje Killaars and Wilma Tabacco… more to come. Www.thesollewittproject.net

‘Breath’ show just popped up in one of my feeds- one of my inflatable shows in 2006 called ‘Room of Breath’ A performative piece- moving through my breath, climbing through and lifting my plastics- at Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney- images by Esa Jaske: using the same Fluro pink plastic in a large work in Sol LeWitt’s Chester studio, tracing his 15 ft pinboard. Choreographing Colour Series with its notation (reflecting Feuillet’s notatiion 1700’s)

Sol LeWitt Chester Studio, 24.1.24, Land and Snow Drawings . ‘Architectonic series #13; Snow Drawings’. #1. From the SLWS studio balcony, drawing materials: found branch on balcony, fresh Connecticut snow. Metasenta Projects: Global Centre for Drawing/+Studio, Metaspace International. , , , , ,

New website: thank you Mark Ashkanasy for the terrific website set up for ‘The Sol LeWitt Project - ten countries’ Now live on. thesollewittproject.net. .

This site will continually expand as the shows and research develop within each country. So exciting! , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Terrific exhibition: Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, January 17 - February 3rd , Celebrate Saturday 3rd February, 2 - 4pm.

Happy 2024 everyone from Langford120. 2023 was a terrific and very busy year- here are some pics. Post 1. #1. Wilma’s exhibition @ Gallery Smith, Wilma and Irene, photograph Peter Hill. #2. Wilma’s exhibition @ Nancy Sever, Canberra, ‘Aqua Alta’. #3 Commission, Collingwood, Wilma. #4. Wilma Studio shot 2023. # 5 Detail- Irene Choreographing Colour 12, DJCAD, University Dundee. #6 detail- Irene, pink PVC drawings for ‘Sol LeWitt Studio Tapestry Suite’ DJCAD Scotland #7 + 8 Installation details ‘ Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt; ten countries: Core Artists’ Janet Passehl, Fransje Killaars, Irene Barberis, Wilma Tabacco- Curator Irene Barberis. #9 Irene, new works, #10. Sitting in Sol’s studio thinking on new works for 2024. Image M. Fiorelli, USA. Wilma and Irene had exhibitions around Australia and internationally in 2023: more images next post- Canberra, Melbourne, Dundee, London, Assisi and Hong Kong. 2024 is also a very full year for both Wilma and Irene and Langford120 with fantastic national and international exhibitions and many publications in process and in the pipeline. Langford120 continues its mandate to contribute to Australian Art and Artists wherever possible- Have a great year 2024 everyone, Irene and Wilma.

Architectonics 7: Constructions and Layouts: Irene Barberis and Louise Lee new show in Hong Kong- terrific students from The Hong Kong Art School and RMIT Hong Kong, installing Architectonics 7: ‘Construction work’- looking forward to seeing the work installed. Louise Lee: ‘Layouts’, new drawings- Should be great. New Hong Kong ArtSpace…more to come

Scones and coffee , a morning at the V&A, then off to the RA- leave for Rome 3.30 AM… fabulous visit to London.

Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt:Ten Countries: Core Artists - Fransje Killaars, Janet Passehl, Wilma Tabacco, Irene Barberis. Project Director, Dr Irene Barberis. Thank-you so much to Anita Taylor and DJCAD, University of Dundee for being the host and commencing the research and dialogue for The LeWitt Project, UK 2019-2026. More to come….

The ‘Closing’ Celebration for Langford120 presentation, architectonics : constructions and fragments’ Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco @ The Art Room Gallery be on Saturday JULY 8th from 2 pm- 4pm. We look forward to seeing everyone.

architectonics:constructions and fragments. @ The Art Room. ‘Closing celebration Saturday 1st July, 138 Cowper St Footscray2pm- 4pm. Open 11 am - 4 pm. Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco. Wilma Tabacco: ‘Fragments’ Irene Barberis ‘Locations: Walls and corners; altered forms.’
A Metasenta Global Project.
‘Barberis’ tape work utilises the same intuitive response to color and structure that she has been working with since the mid-seventies. Her pared back linear compositions move between restraint and explosion- infinite compositions/infinite systems/infinite color responses’

‘architectonics:constructions and fragments- Irene Barberis and Wilma Tabacco- Langford120 gallery @ The Art Room.’
Irene: 1997 Construction/ Hidden Narrative. From the LeWitt Project; Choreographing Colour #5 Colour and Structure Series - Locations: Walls and Corners; Altered Forms’. 2023
“Barberis’ taped work utilises the same intuitive response to colour and structure that she has been working with since the mid-seventies. Her pared back linear compositions move between restraint and explosion- ‘infinite compositions / infinite systems/ infinite colour responses’.”
Wilma: ‘Wall Features’, found wooden objects, fabric, gesso, pigment, 2007 (details to come).
From Room: A Series of Schemes 2005 - 2007