Superflex
Free Sol Lewitt
2010
Eindhoven, framed by the exhibition In-between Minimalisms curated by Christiane Berndes, Daniel McClean and SUPERFLEX at the Van Abbemuseum.

The Van Abbemuseum has invited SUPERFLEX to work with the museum’s collection. They have responded with the exhibition In-between Minimalisms and a new work, FREE SOL LEWITT - an installation made specially for the second part of Play Van Abbe. The museum is sometimes described as a prison in which the artwork is ‘locked-away’ like a criminal. With FREE SOL LEWITT, the artists playfully ask the Van Abbemuseum to ‘set free’ the work of the American artist, Sol LeWitt, Untitled (Wall Structure), 1972. SUPERFLEX has set-up a metal workshop inside the museum in which exact replicas of the specific artwork by LeWitt are made and then shared amongst the museum’s public, free of charge. The copies will be distributed to the public through a random system which visitors to the museum can sign-up for.