For this series, artist Lawrence Weiner (*1942) has made an artist's book in exactly the same format (A6) and with the same number of pages (24) as his first contribution to documenta 5 in 1972, curated by Harald Szeemann. The partly handwritten instructions, statements, definitions, poems, and pictograms give an insight into his artistic practice and—as eloquently as poetically—transfer his ideas around dOCUMENTA (13) into language. A central figure in Conceptual art from its beginnings, Weiner works in a wide variety of media including video, books, performance, and installation. Language: EnglishLawrence Weiner (*1942 in the Bronx, New York) studied literature and philosophy at Hunter College in New York. After an intensive study of the traditional arts of painting and sculpture, he developed his own approach to art, using language, in the late 1960s. His work has been seen in countless solo shows and large, important international exhibitions. Recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; K21, Düsseldorf; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, produced a retrospective of his work titled AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE (2007/08). Weiner's work has been shown at the documenta 5 (1972), 6 (1977), and 7 (1982), and will also be seen in 2012 at the dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel. The artist lives in New York and Amsterdam.
In 1972, Lawrence Weiner (born 1942) published his ninth artist's book: Green as Well as Blue as Well as Red. "The book came about because of an exhibition of the work at Jack Wendler's gallery in London," writes Weiner. "I asked Jack if he would make a book & he said yes. He found a printer and the book was made.
Lawrence Weiner is one of the seminal figures in the conceptual art movement. Since the 1960s his work has used the written word as its primary component. It Follows that this book of the artist's own statements, interviews, lectures, and conference contributions -- would provide invaluable insight into both the ideas behind Weiner's enigmatic art, as well as into the problems and challenges of all contemporary art making. Weiner's work is characterized by a penetrating discipline and wide-ranging intelligence; bringing together some thirty years of critical activity this is an essential volume for all art libraries.
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