Despite its often-cool appearance, conceptual art was made by real people with urgent concerns about their world and the role that art can and should play within it. Drawn from the Wadsworth’s permanent collection, Rules & Repetition features artists who developed and embraced serial repetition, instruction-based artmaking, and other key conceptualist strategies. Taken as a whole, the works in the exhibition suggest how our experiences are shaped by structures and systems, celebrating the ability of art to help us understand how we relate to the world in new ways.
Through our MATRIX program, the first contemporary art exhibition series of its kind, visionary curators like Andrea Miller-Keller, and the support from Hartford-native Sol LeWitt and other artists and benefactors, the Wadsworth has a long history of showing challenging, idea-driven art. Rules & Repetition presents iconic collection works by pioneering conceptual artists of the 1960s and ‘70s alongside more recent acquisitions by artists who adopted their strategies to address concerns of identity, environment, and politics.
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