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April 13, 2007
Ratner moves to protect wall of art
The Brooklyn Paper
Bruce Ratner will protect the legacy of Sol LeWitt, the world-famous conceptual artist who died on Sunday after a long battle with cancer at 78. LeWitt had a workshop in one of the Prospect Heights buildings that Ratner plans to raze for his Atlantic Yards mega-development.
Ratner plans to photograph — the only way to visually preserve LeWitt’s site-specific art — a painting done by the artist on an interior wall of 644 Pacific St., which is slated for demolition this spring.
“We are, of course, aware of the wall paintings,” said Ratner spokesman Joe DePlasco. “And we have long planned to bring in an expert to … photograph them and donate the photographs to Mr. LeWitt’s collection.
While that may seem like insufficient for preserving an original LeWitt work, it is exactly what art experts recommend in cases involving his site-specific conceptual pieces.
NoLandGrab: If FCRC planned to photograph the wall painting all along, how come they waited until after Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn issued a statement before commenting?
Posted by lumi at April 13, 2007 9:06 AM