OKEY DOKEY KONRAD FISCHER is pleased to present Sol LeWitt and David Douard. LeWitt’s first exhibition at the Konrad Fischer Galerie was in 1968, while David Douard’s first exhibition with the gallery was in 2023. Generationally separated, juxtaposing these two artists highlights their shared interests and contrasting strategies, prompting a push pull that takes each artist’s ideas into the future.

In Douard’s words:
I find the idea that my works are shown alongside those of Sol LeWitt very exciting. Beyond the opportunity to exhibit with an artist who has been a reference for me, I believe this encounter can speak to one of the most interesting aspects of art: how two artists, who are drawn to similar concerns, can produce very different forms.

Choosing to speak simply about gesture and color—because it is a way of bringing a practice closer to the body and to life—could be enough. But beyond that, there is also line, structure, and, in filigree, cities and the organization of human society.

I work in a fairly instinctive way, gathering things that are close to me: texts, music, objects. Line is always present. It is what structures my gestures and brings different signs into accord. This is not the straight line of modernity, but a line that deteriorates, deviates. To speak of line is, for me, a way of speaking about the body, the city, and its language. LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #869 also calls modernity into question: the line is not straight, nor directly drawn according to precise measurement, but is instead fragile, traced by a body.

The works I created for this exhibition were made with Wall Drawing #869 in mind, and I hope they will open up its meaning. I believe that the ideas of language, structure, and society present in my pieces can resonate with LeWitt’s works.