Baldessari Sings LeWitt

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“I’d like to sing for you some of these sentences that Sol LeWitt has written on conceptual art. I feel this is a tribute to him. I think that these sentences have been hidden too long in the pages of exhibition catalogs, and that perhaps by me singing them for you, it will bring these sentences to a much larger public. I’ll use the same ordering and numbering, that he has. I’ll try to pause between each statement, for clarity. And maybe then occassionally I will have to sing one sentence over more than once, and that I might not get the phrasing correct” (John Baldessari)

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Toom Tragel: “Baldessari Sings LeWitt [Fourth Edition]”. Zurich, Switzerland: Rollo Press, 2012. Small 4to in blue wraps as issued – 29.7 x 20.9 cm. Fine clean copy

Collection of the 35 statements on conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and the accompanying musical notation by Baldessari for his performance of the statements as song. In 1972, John Baldessari made a film of himself singing some of Sol LeWitt’s more notable statements on the subject of conceptual art. With this slim volume, Estonian graphic designer Toom Tragel presents a complete transcription of Baldessari’s introduction as well as each of his musical scores with LeWitt’s words printed as lyrics underneath the notes