Lawrence Weiner - OFFSIDES
February 6 - March 15, 2008Press Release
Lawrence Weiner's Statement of Intent, 1968
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
Lisson Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Lawrence Weiner, one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation. This will be Weiner's second solo show at the Lisson Gallery and will coincide with the artist's first major US retrospective AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from 15 November 2007 to 10 February 2008, travelling to MOCA, Los Angeles, from 13 April to 14 July 2008 and to K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf from 20 September 2008 to 11 January 2009.
For almost forty years, Weiner has investigated the nature of language and offered a radical redefinition of the relationship between the artist and the viewer. His investigations into linguistic structures and visual systems have resulted in a wide body of work that includes books, films, videos, performances and audio works. Weiner considers language to be a sculptural material and believes that a construction in language can function as a sculpture, just like more traditional fabricated objects.
Lawrence Weiner was born in 1942 in New York and currently lives between Amsterdam and New York. Weiner was involved in seminal shows of the 1960s including an exhibition organised by Seth Siegelaub at Windham College, Vermont in 1968; Primary Structures in 1966 at the Jewish Museum, New York and When Attitudes become form in 1969 at Kunsthalle, Bern.
Weiner's career has seen many important solo exhibitions including WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1990); DISPLACEMENT, DIA Center for the Arts (1991-2); QUELQUES CHOSES, Musée d'Art Contemporarin, Bordeaux (1992); CHAINS WRAPPED AROUND ONE THING & ANOTHER BROKEN ONE BY ONE WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1992), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1994), Philadelphia Museum of Art (1994); AFTER ALL, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2000); AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, Cologne Kunstverein (2000); BENT AND BROKEN SHAFTS OF LIGHT, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2000-1); and INHERENT IN THE RHUMB LINE at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2007). Weiner's work can be found in major collections worldwide including the Guggenheim and MOMA, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Tate Collection, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
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Exhibition Images
OFFSIDES, 2007
THAT WHICH IS BROUGHT TO BEAR REDUCING THE MASS AS IT WAS & HINDERING PASSAGE AS IT IS FIRST MOVE SECOND MOVE THIRD MOVE, 2007
THAT WHICH IS BROUGHT TO BEAR REDUCING THE MASS AS IT WAS & HINDERING PASSAGE AS IT IS FIRST MOVE SECOND MOVE THIRD MOVE, 2007
A BIT BEYOND WHAT IS DESIGNATED AS THE PALE, 2007
A DETERMINATION OF WHERE WHAT DALLS OFFSIDE RESTS, 2007
FOUND BY CHANCE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND ALONE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND DUE TO PROXIMITY AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND DUE TO ITS NATURE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND WHERESOEVER IT IS AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND TO MAKE TO WITH AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND MIXED + MATCHED AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME, 2007
FOUND BY CHANCE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND ALONE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND DUE TO PROXIMITY AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND DUE TO ITS NATURE AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND WHERESOEVER IT IS AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND TO MAKE TO WITH AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME FOUND MIXED + MATCHED AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME, 2007
STAND ASIDE, 2007 Work on paper
ALL BALLS ARE IN PLAY, 2007 Work on paper