Artist field note

Lawrence Weiner

Language as sculpture.

Appears inConceptual Art
Smashed to Pieces (In the Still of the Night) by Lawrence Weiner — Example from the series
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Smashed to Pieces (In the Still of the Night)

1991

A phrase carries action, violence and imagination without depicting any of them.

The five in one idea

Weiner made language occupy space with the economy of a physical object and the openness of an instruction.