Lawrence Weiner
American · 1942–2021 · Painter, Sculptor
Lawrence Charles Weiner was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the… (Wikipedia)
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HARD AS A ROCK OR (ASSUMING THE POSITION) SOFT AS SILK PUT TOGETHER OR (ASSUMING THE POSITION) SPREAD APART PLACED ON TOP OR (ASSUMING THE POSITION) PLACED BELOW TOSSED ASIDE OR (ASSUMING THE POSITION) CARRIED ALONGPhillips · $175,000≈ £134,896≈ €156,474Sign up to see
Preparatory Drawings For Gyroscopically SpeakingPhillips · $81,900≈ £60,766≈ €72,190Sign up to see
VARYING DEGREES OF DAMAGE DONE TO THE SAME THINGPhillips · $77,400≈ £58,406≈ €67,877Sign up to see
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Lawrence Charles Weiner was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the potentials of language as a sculptural medium. For him language could be presented in any format able to discourse with typical art subjects such as: language installed on a wall, printed as text in a book or catalog, spoken or performed in a film, spoken aloud in conversation, simply remembered, et cetera; as Lawrence explains in 1970:"As to construction please remember that... there is no correct way to construct the piece as there is no incorrect way to construct it. If the piece is built it constitutes not how the piece looks but only how it could look."
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In the collections of
TateArt Gallery of New South WalesArt Institute of ChicagoAuckland Art GalleryCODA MuseumDe AppelDesign Museum Den BoschFinnish National GalleryGroninger MuseumHamburger BahnhofHessel Museum of ArtHungarian National GalleryKröller-Müller MuseumKunsthaus ZürichM HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst AntwerpenMACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary ArtMiddelheim MuseumMuseum ArnhemMuseum Boijmans Van BeuningenMuseum Dhondt-DhaenensMuseum of Modern ArtMusée National d'Art ModerneNational Gallery of CanadaNational Gallery of VictoriaPérez Art Museum MiamiRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSprengel MuseumStedelijk Museum AmsterdamStedelijk Museum voor Actuele KunstVan AbbemuseumWhitney Museum of American ArtYale University Art GalleryZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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conceptual art
Also known as Larry Wiener, Lawrence Charles Weiner, Lawrence Wiener
Works in museum collections
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CC BY 4.0 · Sandra Fauconnier, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) — Middelheim Museum
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Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Kröller-Müller Museum ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Kröller-Müller Museum
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0), Tate collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.