Lawrence Weiner

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The 1991 by Lawrence Weiner redesigned Flakturm in Esterhazy Park in Vienna : Shattered into pieces (in peace at night) / Smashed to pieces (in the quiet of the night)

Lawrence Weiner (born February 10, 1942 in the Bronx , New York ; lives in Amsterdam and New York ) is an American visual artist . Alongside Sol LeWitt , Robert Barry , Douglas Huebler and Joseph Kosuth , Weiner is considered to be a representative of conceptual art that emerged from minimalism in the 1960s .

Youth and education

Weiner was born in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City . He only briefly attended Hunter College in New York after graduating from high school before turning to the arts.

Works

Weiner's early work included experimentation with shaped canvases and squares cut out of carpets. Since 1960 he has been presented in solo exhibitions. 1968 after previously LeWitt in his Paragraphs on Conceptual Art had formulated Weiner created his Declaration of Intent :

  1. The artist can make the work. ( The artist may construct the piece )
  2. The work can be made. ( The piece may be fabricated )
  3. The work need not be carried out. ( The piece need not be built )
    Every possibility is equivalent and corresponds to the intention of the artist, the decision on the execution lies with the recipient at the time of receipt. ( Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership )

Weiner's first book “Statements”, published in 1968 (published by the Louis Kellner Foundation and Seth Siegelaub ), a 64-page paperback in which he described several projects, is considered to be one of the most important works of conceptual art of this time. In the same year he was involved in the Xeroxbook , also edited by Seth Siegelaub, and in 1969/1970 in “ When attitudes become form ” by Harald Szeemann in the Kunsthalle Bern .

Wall installations have been Weiner's preferred medium since the early 1970s . In addition, he deals with video art , film art , books , audio recordings , performances , posters, multiples, graphics and various other forms of presentation of his text works, which he understands as sculptures.

In 2007 Weiner took part in the Personal Structures Time-Space-Existence symposium , a project initiated by the artist Rene Rietmeyer .

Collections

North-east outer wall: New Museum Weserburg and Society for Contemporary Art in Bremen on the Weser .

Works by Lawrence Weiner are among others. a. in the following institutions:

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 1969: January 5-31, 1969 , McLendon Building, New York
  • 1969: Op Losse Schroeven. Situaties en cryptostructuren , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1969: When Attitudes Become Form , Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1969: Lawrence Weiner. 5 Works , Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax
  • 1969: 557,087 , The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle / 1970: 955,000 , The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • 1969: Prospect 69 , Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1969: Conception , Leverkusen City Museum, Morsbroich Castle, Leverkusen
  • 1970: Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects , The New York Cultural Center, New York
  • 1970: Art in the Mind , Org .: Athena Spear, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin
  • 1970: Lawrence Weiner , two-way traffic. Center for Current Art, Aachen
  • 1970: Information , The Museum of Modern Art, New York 
  • 1970: Software , The Jewish Museum, New York 
  • 1971: Guggenheim International Exhibition , The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 
  • 1971: Sonsbeek 71: Buiten de Perken , Sonsbeek, Arnheim
  • 1971: Arte de Sistemas / Art Systems , Centro de Arte y Comunicación, Buenos Aires 
  • 1972: 36th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 1972: documenta 5 , Kassel .
  • 1973: Lawrence Weiner , Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
  • 1973: Lawrence Weiner , Mönchengladbach Municipal Museum
  • 1976: Lawrence Weiner , Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Kunsthalle Basel
  • 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
  • 1978: Lawrence Weiner , The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
  • 1979: Lawrence Weiner . Video , Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • 1982:  Lynda Benglis, Joan Brown, Luis Jimenez, Gary Stephan, Lawrence Weiner: Early Work , The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  • 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel
  • 1983: Albert Mertz & Lawrence Weiner. Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
  • 1983: Lawrence Weiner . Works and Re-Constructions , Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1983: The Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design 1965-1983 , Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
  • 1985: Lawrence Weiner . Sculpture , ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
  • 1987: Lawrence Weiner . 5 Figures of Structure , The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago 
  • 1988: Lawrence Weiner . Altered to Suit / Made to Fit , Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
  • 1988: Art Conceptuel I , capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
  • 1988: Lawrence Weiner. Works from the Beginning of the Sixties Towards the End of the Eighties , Stedeijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1989: Lawrence Weiner. Books , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1989: L'art conceptuel, une perspective , ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
  • 1990: Lawrence Weiner. Light = (light) , Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1990: Lawrence Weiner. With the Passage of Time , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
  • 1991: Lawrence Weiner. Displacement , Dia Center for the Arts, New York
  • 1992: Lawrence Weiner. Rites of passage / Rites of Passage , Lenbachhaus / Kunstforum, Munich
  • 1994: Lawrence Weiner. Without Regard or / Or Without Regard , Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
  • 1995: Lawrence Weiner. From point to point / From Point to Point , Kunstverein St. Gallen .
  • 1995: Orientation. 4th International Istanbul Biennial , Istanbul
  • 1996: Lawrence Weiner. Slipping & Sliding / Slide & Schlittern , Carinthian State Gallery in the Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt
  • 1997: sculpture. Projects in Münster 1997 , Münster
  • 1998: Lawrence Weiner. Written on the Wind / Written on the Wind , Kunsthalle Nürnberg
  • 2000: Lawrence Weiner. After Alles / After All , Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
  • 2000: Lawrence Weiner. Bent & Broken Shafts of Light / Bent & Broken Light Rays , Wolfsburg Art Museum
  • 2001: Lawrence Weiner. Por si mísmo / Per se , Palacio de Cristal, Biblioteca Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
  • 2001: 49th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2002:  Lawrence Weiner. Until It Is , Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus
  • 2004: Lawrence Weiner. Covered by Clouds / Cubierto por nubes , Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
  • 2006: Lawrence Weiner. XY & Z , Bawag Foundation, Vienna
  • 2007: 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2007: Lawrence Weiner. As Far As the Eye Can See , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York / 2008: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • 2009: Sharjah Biennial 9 , Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 
  • 2010: EMSCHERKUNST.2010 with the project "Light installation in the clarifier & Catch as catch can"
  • 2011: Liam Gillick & Lawrence Weiner. A Syntax of Dependency: / Een syntaxis van afhankelijkheid: / Une syntaxe de dependance:, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
  • 2012: documenta 13
  • 2013: Lawrence Weiner. Written on the Wind , Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona / Op de wind geschreven, Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam.
  • 2013: 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2015: 14th Istanbul Biennial , Istanbul
  • 2015: Lawrence Weiner. Within a Realm of Distance , Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
  • 2016: Lawrence Weiner. Wherewithal / What it takes , Kunsthaus Bregenz

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Benjamin HD Buchloh (Ed.): Lawrence Weiner: Posters November 1965-April 1986 , Halifax / Toronto: The Press of the Novia Scotia College of Art & Design / Art Metropole, 1986
  • Dieter Schwarz (Ed.): Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968-1989 , Cologne / Villeurbanne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Le Nouveau Musée, 1989
  • Bartomeu Mari & Alice Weiner (Eds.): Show & Tell: The Films and Videos of Lawrence Weiner , Gent: Imschoot, 1992
  • Kunstverein St. Gallen: Lawrence Weiner: From Pont to Point , St. Gallen 2005, ISBN 3-927789-54-2 .
  • Alexander Alberro et al .: Lawrence Weiner , London: Phaidon, 1998
  • Lawrence Weiner. 5 Elements 2 Times ; Documents of Our Time - Volume XXIII, with a text by Martin van der Koelen and a conversation with Heinz Gappmayr, Dorothea van der Koelen and Lawrence Weiner, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-926663-23-5
  • Gerti Fietzek & Gregor Stemmrich (Eds.): Asked and Said: Writings & Interviews by Lawrence Weiner 1968-2003 , Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2004
  • Ann Goldstein and Donna De Salvo (Eds.): Lawrence Weiner. As Far As The Eye Can See . Catalog Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007
  • Gabriele Wix (Ed.): Lawrence Weiner: NACH BILDENDE KUNST / AFTER FINE ART Works presented in the German Language / works presented in German-speaking countries. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012

Web links

Commons : Lawrence Weiner  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First published in: January 5-31, 1969 , exhibition catalog, New York: Seth Siegelaub, 1969.
  2. ↑ derStandard.at - Lawrence Weiner receives Roswitha-Haftmann-Preis . Article dated November 26, 2014, accessed November 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13) Homepage Research Part 24 Nov. 2011
  4. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 244 .


personal data
SURNAME Weiner, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American visual artist, representative of conceptual art
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York