The Barolo Chapel or Cappella delle Brunate by Sol LeWitt
& Golden Rectangles
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden
Rectangle into squares (The Barolo Chapel or Cappella delle Brunate by Sol LeWitt).
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Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt
, whose art is rooted in basic geometry, rose to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" but
was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, and
painting.
A golden rectangle
is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio,
one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618. A distinctive
feature of this shape is that when a square section is
removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is,
with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can
be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of
the golden or Fibonacci spiral.
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"A deconsecrated church at Brunate La Morra is now the very colourful Capella del Barolo, the result of a deal made by wine growers Bruno and Marcello Ceretto with American artists Sol Lewitt and David Tremlett, who painted it in return for a constant supply of Barolo."
Italian Riviera and Piedmont by Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls.
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