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
Read moreLisson 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 November 2007 to
February 2008, travelling to MOCA, Los Angeles, in spring 2008.
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.
