Conceptual Artists are Mystics rather than Rationalists. A lecture
Connecting the Sol Lewitt's minimal art structures to notions of the non-rational becomes a point in itself. "He falls outside the parameters of what is usually expected" as Lynne Cooke writes, and the "new experiences" produced by his "art making machines" should maybe be understood, besides from something tangible, as an invitation to find new routes in the landscape that makes the work and its critical reception. This is how LeWitt's first three conceptual sentences perform: they outline a game where we try to settle something that, more than likely, will remain unsettled. The lecture is organized by Jan Mot galley Brussels, where the artist open his new exhibition on 29/1. (image: Joachim Koester, I myself am only a receiving apparatus, 2010, film still).