Lawrence Weiner was born in The Bronx, New York in 1942, where his parents owned a sweet shop. After graduating high school, he worked in manual industrial jobs: on oil tankers and railroad cars, but then he saw a Jackson Pollock at MoMA, and everything changed.\u00a0\nReturning to New...
We pay tribute to American conceptual art pioneer Lawrence Weiner – known for his philosophical heft, linguistic dexterity and political candour – who has passed away aged 79 Courtesy of the artist and Moved Pictures; Archive Photo Maria Sprowls
For six years in the 1960s, he orchestrated a series of explosions in the California landscape to create craters as individual sculptures. Around the same time, he began writing instructive statements describing creative gestures: ‘Two minutes of spray paint directly on the floor...’ or ‘A 36" x 36" removal of lathing or support wall…’ . It wasn’t entirely clear whether the statement was attached to an artwork, or whether the statement was the artwork. And that was the point.
He found words to be a versatile medium. He presented his work in galleries, in books, as audio, but most notably, in public spaces: as graffiti, on manhole covers, on billboards, and exterior walls. Sharp, poetic and rendered in his unmistakable caps-locked typeface, Margaret Seaworthy Gothic, Weiner’s work was always succinct, and always expressive.
Other major international solo exhibitions were held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam , Hirshhorn Museum andGarden, Washington, DC , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London , Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux , Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , The Jewish Museum, New York and Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire .
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