We are relocating!
In the coming weeks we will be occupied with packing and moving our internet store inventory. The entire collection needs to be transferred from Leidschendam to Oegstgeest, and this will take some time.
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Lawrence Weiner was a conceptual artist and self-taught. He was early on impressed by Frank Stella and Jasper Johns. Verbal elements – texts and signs – play an important role in his work. He often presents cryptic texts, strongly magnified, on walls of museums and galleries, but also on graphics, photos, and everyday objects. The words form verbal abstractions of the artwork conceived by Weiner. It only comes to life in the mind of the spectator when they read the text and try to understand it.
Since 1970, Weiner has alternated between living in New York and Amsterdam, where he also creates books and graphics, often combining them with geometric graphic forms. For him, language is the most abstract thing that we have developed. He considers texts as sculptures that come alive in the minds of spectators.
Lawrence Weiner wants to break and change the conventional understanding of “visual art.” Initially, he worked with spray cans to let fire or bleach work on a fabric. In the late 1960s, that gave way to words, or statements. Over time, the texts became more abstract, philosophical, and poetic. He used adhesive letters to express his ideas.
Weiner also made films, in which texts were spoken and depicted. He is considered one of the first representatives of conceptual art. Later, he would also collaborate on performances in which artists made their own bodies the subject of the action: body art. In the Netherlands, Lawrence Weiner had major exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 1976) and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 1988/89). At the Spui in Amsterdam, Weiner’s work “A Translation” lies, from one language to another, a commission from the University of Amsterdam to make it more visible in the city.
www.ftn-books.com just added 3 important Weiner titles to its collection.
