LAWRENCE WEINER

Lawrence Weiner (1942 - 2021)
He was one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. Weiner is regarded as a founding figure of Postminimalism's Conceptual art, which includes artists like Douglas Huebler, Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth, and Sol LeWitt. Although Weiner sees himself as a sculptor rather than a conceptualist, he is among the first since the 1960s to present art as language. He defines his sculptural medium simply as ''language + the material referred to'' in the sense that language is a material for construction.

In 2013 the European Cultural Centre organized a solo exhibition from Lawrence Weiner as part of the Venice Biennale. The exhibition was title "The Grace Of A Gesture", and showed that work in 9 different languages. Together with Lawrence Weiner, the ECC created a limited edition from photos of his works.