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MOVED FROM UP FRONT

MOVED FROM UP FRONT

Lawrence Weiner
American, 1942–2021
1970
A word-based work by Lawrence Weiner that uses bold, stenciled language—here reading “MOVED FROM UP FRONT”—to act as both instruction and the artwork itself, with the artist treating language (and the materials it references) as the medium.
What strikes you is the blunt physicality of the blue capitals across a spare white wall: the large, even letters and the empty gallery floor make the terse phrase feel like a removed object or a site-specific command.
A defining piece of Conceptual Art that replaces traditional objects with propositions, showing how language can function as sculptural material and shifting attention from making things to articulating possibilities for their realization.
Medium
LANGUAGE + THE MATERIALS REFERRED TO
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Classification
Credit
Art & Project/Depot VBVR Gift
Accession
464.2007
Palette
Exhibitions
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