MINIMAL ART BY LAWRENCE WEINER

With his enigmatic word creations, Lawrence Weiner both challenges and inspires the onlooker. Well-known phrases are given new meaning, original significance, at the same time alienating and reshaping the familiar.

LAWRENCE WEINER, one of the central figures of conceptual art, was born in the Bronx, New York, on 10 February 1942. Like other conceptual artists, he gained international recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Weiner has explored forms of display and distribution that challenge traditional conceptions about the nature of art.