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Lawrence Weiner has made art from words since the 1960s. The posters for his exhibitions and projects that constitute this show at SFU are part of Weiner’s exploration of the intersection between language, art and the material world. This exhibition explores the beauty of Weiner’s design conceptions as well as the text propositions that the posters were meant to convey.
Making art from words, or introducing and making words into art, are the two polarities of text-based Conceptual practice. Conceptualism’s texts had their origin in ideas for potential art, and as Lawrence Weiner has said many times, “the work may not be built”, it may exist as an idea, and it is ideas and their relation to the material world that are important in Weiner’s work. Additionally, his texts are sculptures that carve space with words — they are glyptographic as well as typographic. The carved letter text on the façade of the Vancouver Art Gallery (facing Robson Street) is an example of Weiner’s words placed as a permanent installation. Perhaps more than any other contemporary artist, Lawrence Weiner has brought viewers into the processes by which works of art may be (or may not be) realized.
Panel Discussion: Art & Words/Words & Art with Grant Arnold, Bill Jeffries, Kyla Mallett, Kim Nguyen and Ian Wallace. Saturday January 7, 2–3 pm, room AQ 3003 (beside the Gallery).
Opening Reception at the Gallery:
Saturday January 7, 3–5pm.
Six lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries:
Wednesday to Friday, January 11 to 13 12:05 & 12:35pm each day.
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