purchasing a work by L. Weiner

"I am fascinated by the process of purchasing a work by Lawrence Weiner,
whose complicated instructions lack the very idea of the "hand of the artist" 
only in literal terms. The purchase isn't for the lettering itself, but a certificate 
with the phrase and instructions on how to realize it, specifying the materials 
or the actual process. Weiner, who has been instrumental in the idea of 
conceptual art since the 1960s, creates phrases, often ambiguous, that 
appear in museums throughout the world. The next time you're in a 
museum and see writing on the wall, don't assume that it's wall text or that 
the artist himself painted it."(source: TRAVELLIOUS)
Must confess, i never thought about, and i must admit: fascinating!

one slab + another...

by Lawrence Weiner

(source: locomomo at Flickr)

taken from...

by Lawrence Weiner, 1980
Vinyl letters
From the accompanying plaque:
"In 1968 Lawrence Weiner decided that the physical realization of his ideas
was not a necessary condition of his art. A linguistic construction -- presented
as a title in the form of a simple descriptive phrase on the wall -- seemed to the
artist to be less vulnerable to change over time than an actual sculpture. This
work, which describes a physical act of displacement as a metaphor for
representation, and its title are thus one and the same."
(source: mjthor at flickr)