{"id":1602,"date":"2019-08-15T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T07:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoa169.com\/stoa\/lawrence-weiner\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:29:27","slug":"lawrence-weiner","status":"publish","type":"stoa","link":"https:\/\/stoa169.com\/en\/stoa\/lawrence-weiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Weiner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>* 1942 in New York, USA<br\/>\u2020 2021 in New York<\/p>\n\n<p>Lawrence Weiner is considered, alongside Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry, Douglas Hueber and Joseph Kosuth, as one of the central figures of conceptual art, which arose out of the minimalist movement in the 1960s. His legendary \u201c Statement of Intent\u201c was published in 1968: in it he proclaimed that the production of an art piece is not necessarily bound to the artist and instead should be understood much more as a function\/ role in his or her reception. Weiner was a master of intelligent, poetic wordplay \u2013 his main medium \u2013 which he defined as sculpture \u2013 is the wall installation consisting of words and individual letters. Weiner saw language as both a material and a sculptural medium. He created his word sculptures for museums and galleries or in public spaces on manhole covers or the fa\u00e7ades of houses. <\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;I will be damned if I ever wanted to exclude any sensual function from art. I am just an artist, you know, I do not have to be right all the time. I am not giving out medical prescriptions to people and I am not flying an airplane, I am just this person putting things in the culture, with a responsible thing that can change the culture.&#8221; (Lawrence Weiner in conversation with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, New York, May 1997) .<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mai36.com\/artists\/lawrence-weiner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.mai36.com\/artists\/lawrence-weiner <\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Alyssa Gorelick <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 1942 in New York, USA\u2020 2021 in New York Lawrence Weiner is considered, alongside Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry, Douglas Hueber and Joseph Kosuth, as one of the central figures of conceptual art, which arose out of the minimalist movement in the 1960s. 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