Lawrence Weiner
HERE THERE & EVERYWHERE
1989
Lawrence Weiner was among the first generation of Conceptual artists who prioritized ideas over visual images and forms, and treated language as a material. Indeed, Weiner refers to his works as sculptures composed of “language and the materials referred to.” Here There & Everywhere consists of eight lines of text, comprising a chorus and refrain of four directionally related statements. The open-endedness of Weiner’s text is echoed by the guidelines for its installation, which allow the work’s form to be determined by the curator and the specificity of the architectural space: the text can be installed either on four separate walls or together on a single vertical surface. Art is like language, Weiner reminds us, and is not fixed in its significance, but subject to change according to “various manners with various things.”
Not on view
Date
1989
Classification
Installations
Medium
Language + the materials referred to
Dimensions
Dimensions variable
Accession number
94.136
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee
Rights and reproductions
©Lawrence Weiner/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
API
artworks/9264