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GLOSS WHITE LACQUER, SPRAYED FOR 2 MINUTES AT 40LB PRESSURE DIRECTLY

GLOSS WHITE LACQUER, SPRAYED FOR 2 MINUTES AT 40LB PRESSURE DIRECTLY

Lawrence Weiner
American, 1942–2021
1968
A conceptual instruction by Lawrence Weiner realized as a sprayed patch of gloss white lacquer—a work in which the written directive and the material action are the artwork.
You notice a bright, nearly circular white disc laid over warm wooden floorboards, its soft, feathered edges and glossy surface reading like a luminous absence or sun that ignores the grain beneath.
A key example of Weiner’s language-based practice, it insists that the idea, the instructions, and the materials are interchangeable, helping to shift late‑1960s art from object-making to dematerialized, reproducible concepts.
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LANGUAGE + THE MATERIALS REFERRED TO
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Credit
The Seth Siegelaub Collection. Gift of James Thrall Soby (by exchange)
Accession
399.2010
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