A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE
Lawrence Weiner
American, 1942–2021
1976
A language-based work by Lawrence Weiner that uses red stenciled text on a glass door to propose the idea of 'matter' itself as the work rather than a conventional physical object.
Bold, industrial stencil letters appear to float on the transparent glass while the courtyard and brick building behind read through the words, so the phrase and the place overlap and shift as you move.
A clear example of Weiner’s conceptual practice that treated language as sculpture, helping to redefine sculpture as idea or instruction about materials rather than only as a crafted object.
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LANGUAGE + THE MATERIALS REFERRED TO
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Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley
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644.2011
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