Lawrence Weiner
Erna Hecey has worked intermittently with Laurence Weiner since 2001.
(b. 1942 in New York, NY, lives ad works in New York)
Lawrence Weiner's texts have appeared in all sorts of places over the last five decades, and although he sees himself as a sculptor rather than a conceptualist, he is among the trailblazers of the 1960s to present art as language. He defines his sculptural medium simply as 'language + the material referred to' in the sense that language is a material for construction. Accordingly, his first book Statements (1968) contains 24 typewritten descriptions of works, where only a few had actually been made, suggesting that a work's existence requires a readership rather than a physical presence. While Weiner's works exist only as language and can be displayed in any form, he is closely involved in manifestations, detailing the size of the font, the surface texture and placement of the paint or vinyl letters and indeed often inventing new fonts. Texts appear on walls and windows of galleries and public spaces, as spoken word in audio recordings and video, printed books and posters, cast or carved objects, tattoos, graffiti, lyrics, online, ad infinitum.
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Bent & Broken. Shafts of Light
Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner, 2000 Read more -
Lawrence Weiner: After Fine Art, Nach Bildende Kunst
2012 Read more -
Lawrence Weiner: The Other Side of A Cul-De-Sac
2009 Read more -
Written on the Wind
Lawrence Weiner: Drawings Lawrence Weiner, 2013 Read more -
Per Kirkeby and Lawrence Weiner
2016 Read more -
Deep Blue Sky/Light Blue Sky
Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner, 2008 Read more -
WHEREWITHAL | WAS ES BRAUCHT
Lawrence Weiner 2017 Read more -
Show & Tell
Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner, 1992 Read more