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5 Works of Lawrence Weiner

5 Works of Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner
American, 1942–2021
1973
A lithographed, offset-printed poster by Lawrence Weiner that presents bilingual text fragments as the artwork itself, using terse phrases, ellipses, and parentheses to treat language—rather than an image—as the work’s material.
You are struck by the spare, carefully spaced typography—English and Italian columns facing one another, isolated phrases and blank parentheses that create pauses and negative space across a pale, subtly warm sheet.
A key example of conceptual art’s dematerialization, this poster shows how Weiner turned statements into art, using translation and printed circulation to relocate meaning from unique objects to language and its public enactment.
Medium
Lithographed poster, offset printed
Dimensions
composition (each): 30 1/2 x 24 13/16" (77.5 x 63 cm); sheet (each): 36 5/8 x 29 3/4" (93.1 x 75.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Art & Project/Depot VBVR Gift
Accession
1121.2007.x1-x2
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