Lawrence Weiner
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Lawrence Weiner is one of the most significant and iconic artists of our generation. Throughout his practice he has pursued inquiries into language and a radical redefinition of the artist/viewer relationship. Translating his investigations into linguistic structures and visual systems across varied formats and manifestations, he has produced books, films, videos, performances and audio works.
The belief at the core of Lawrence Weiner's work is that art is a material reality between human beings and objects and between sets of objects in relation to human beings. Weiner considers language to be a sculptural material and believes that a construction in language can function as sculpture as adequately as a fabricated object. His statement of intent published in 1969 states:
THE ARTIST MAY CONSTRUCT THE WORK
THE WORK MAY BE FABRICATED
THE WORK NEED NOT BE BUILT
EACH BEING EQUAL AND CONSISTENT WITH THE INTENT OF THE ARTIST THE DECISION AS TO CONDITION RESTS WITH THE RECEIVER UPON THE OCCASION OF RECEIVERSHIP
As a proposition or statement, each work need not be confined to an existence in one realised form, place or time but might be constructed in different contexts.
Lawrence Weiner lives and works in New York.
Artist Contact
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Artist News
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
15 November 2007 - 10 February 2008
Whitney Museum of American Art
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
13 April - 14 July 2008
LA MOCA
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
20 September 2008 - 11 January 2009
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Artist Exhibitions
Lawrence Weiner - OFFSIDES February 6 - March 15, 2008View Exhibition
Lawrence Weiner October 19 - November 23, 2005
View Exhibition
Artist Images
52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2007
AT A TANGENT TO WHAT APPEARS TO BE INFINITY, 2006 Language and the materials referred to Dimensions variable
Inside & Outside of Itself, 2005 Work in Situ Austria, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. November 26-December 12, 2005.
Made To Produce A Spark Work in situ Italy: Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli Torino March 28-July 30, 2006.
WITHIN A REALM OF RELATIVE FORM, 2005 Language and the materials referred to Dimensions variable
AT A DISTANCE TO THE FOREGROUND, 2005 language and the materials refered to Dimensions variable
TURNED AS THE WORLD TURNS, 2001 Language and the materials referred to Dimensions variable
Por Sí Mismo Spain: Palacio de Cristal, and MNCARS Library Museo Nacional-Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid April 19-June 24, 2001
Displacement New York: DIA Center for the Arts. April 4 1991 -June 1992
Rot enough to lead to a lapse in the ability to support of a beam, 1986 Language and the materials referred to Dimensions variable