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VIRGINIA DWAN INTERVIEW
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every reason to believe they will be, they will be reproduced on the wall of the collector...

E.V.: Collector's house or apartment. I should think it would hurt terribly to have your work erased.

V.D.: It doesn't hurt him because he, some time ago at the club, was asked if he would mind. He'd become so conceptual and abstract in what he was saying that one of the people in the audience said it sounds as if you would like it if you didn't really have to do your work, if it didn't really have to be seen. And he said that he would be delighted. It think that the word is not "anonymous" that it's really, I know he is not alone, that the concept is of greatest importance to the artist and its execution is incidental to that. One critic made the mistake a few years ago of thinking that because of LeWitt's wood, that he was involved in some kind of mysticism of wood, I just found that out the other day. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact of the matter was at the time he didn't have the financial support to do the works in metal, and they were put together rather roughly simply because he very specifically was not interested in the material used in the visual concept.

E.V.: That's very interesting. I thought that, I should think it would hurt very much to erase your own works of art. Of course, the fact that it may be reproduced again, when he could do it originally on canvas, on paper instead of on the wall.

V.D.: Of course the fact that a painting is always on the wall, in any case, is of interest to him. Of course , we have the history of the fresco which was directly on the wall--

E.V.: But then they did try to preserve them, and you can remove them from the plaster. 

V.D: You see when he presents them in a gallery he is presenting it to a large public, and when it is purchased, it will stay with that person as long as that person stays in that house, it will stay with that person in their home. And erasing or painting over them is of  very little concern to him as long as people have seen them. Because after all, if he painted them on canvas, and they went back into some wraps somewhere, people wouldn't be seeing them either, would they?
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