Lawrence Weiner
dal 22/7/2000 al 8/10/2000
Segnalato da
22/7/2000
Lawrence Weiner
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin
After All/Nach Alles. A pioneer of Conceptual Art, American artist Lawrence Weiner redefined the medium-based boundaries of Modernist painting and sculpture. Since 1968, when he concluded that the actual physical construction of a work was not critical to its existence in the world, he has created hundreds of artworks using language as the constant in an array of possible other materials. In short, Weiner is a sculptor whose medium is language. His art can literally be disseminated by word of mouth.
After All/Nach Alles.
A pioneer of Conceptual Art, American artist Lawrence Weiner redefined the
medium-based boundaries of Modernist painting and sculpture. Since 1968, when he
concluded that the actual physical construction of a work was not critical to its existence
in the world, he has created hundreds of artworks using language as the constant in an
array of possible other materials. In short, Weiner is a sculptor whose medium is
language. His art can literally be disseminated by word of mouth. A work can be made or
merely spelled out on a museum wall, but it can also be read in a book or heard if
uttered aloud. In a radical restructuring of the traditional artist/viewer relationship,
Weiner shifted the responsibility of the work's realization to its audience, while also
redefining standard systems of artistic distribution. The empirical nature of materials and
the potential for viewers to ascribe metaphors to them is a topic that has occupied the
artist for some years. His Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin commission, realized for the
exhibition as a bilingual, environmental-scale installation entitled AFTER ALL / NACH
ALLES, is composed of texts written directly on the gallery walls that address the
multiple realities of materials as they coexist and interact in the same space. The title of
the project is intended to connote the total accumulation of things with a reference to
what might lie beyond (or after) such an aggregation of materials.
Curator:
Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Nancy Spector, Curator of
Contemporary Art, with Joan Young, Assistant Curator.
Catalogue:
The exhibition will be accompanied by a special artist's book conceived and designed by
Lawrence Weiner. This full-color publication will document the commissioned artwork
through drawings, texts, and plans of the installation, at the price of DM 59
Museum Hours NEW:
Daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., thursdays and fridays to 10 p.m.
Admission:
DM 5,-- (reduced DM 3,--), free entrance on Mondays
Tours:
Daily at 6 p.m.
Lunch-Lectures:
Wednesdays at 1 p.m. Special tours at lunchtime, afterwards lunch served
Special Tours:
Sundays at 11:30 a.m. Special tours, afterwards brunch is served
MuseumsShop:
More than 700 items: from books and jewelry to toys
Edition N° 12:
Discovery-Kit - NACH ALLES / AFTER ALL. The limited edition of 50, numbered by hand
and signed by the artist is exclusively available at the price of DM 2.700
Café KAFFEEBANK:
Drinks; Brunch/light lunch: changing menu
Directions:
Subway Stadtmitte (U2) Subway Französische Straße (U6) S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1,
S2), S-Bahn Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75) Buses 100, 157, 348
Press-Preview:
Friday, July 14, 2000, 11 a.m. Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Unter den Linden 13-15,
Entrance Charlottenstrasse
Press Contact:
Svenja Simon/Sara Bernshausen 030-202093-14
Next exhibition:
Jeff Koons: October 27, 2000 to January 14, 2001
Thematic Tours
Sunday, 11.30 a.m., followed by brunch
23.07. 20.08. 27.08. 08.10.
Space-links and word-links -
the sculptural qualities come with the reading
Dr. Beate Zimmermann
30.07. 17.09. 01.10.
Aesthetic asceticism or the essence of painting?
Lawrence Weiner in the context of minimal art
Barbara Lauterbach
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Svenja Simon/ Sara Bernshausen
Unter den Linden 13-15
D-10117 Berlin
Tel. +49-30-202093-14
Fax. +49-30-202093-20