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Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
From: MOVED PICTURES
Subject: Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO
Date: June 7, 2013 4:41:54 PM EDT
To: Marcia Vetrocq
DEAR MARCIA VETROCQ
REGARDING: REPLAY THE ATTITUDES EXHIBITION
I WAS MOST IMPRESSED BY THE CARE & ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE WORKS & THE ATTEMPT TO RE-CREATE A PHYSICAL MISE-EN-SCENE WITHIN THE AMBIANCE OF THE ORIGINAL INSTALLATION
ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS EXHIBITION BECAME SUCH A BENCHMARK FOR THE 20TH CENTURY WHEN IN FACT THE LASTING RESULTS OF THE SHOW ARE MORE ABOUT THE DYNAMICS OF THE MELDING OF ARTISTS THAT FOUND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDST OF OTHER ARTISTS WITH A MINDSET THAT ALLOWED FOR COEXISTENCE LEADING TO WHAT WE TODAY KNOW AS THE INTERNATIONAL ART WORLD
THE WORKS THEMSELVES HAD ALREADY ENTERED THE CULTURE THE AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION OP LOSSE SCHROEVEN HAD PRECEDED BERN GALLERISTS WERE SHOWING MANY OF THE ARTISTS
BERN AT THAT MOMENT GAVE A MAPPING TO A COSMOS
BEST REGARDS
I REMAIN
LAWRENCE WEINER
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Lawrence WeinerBORN 10 FEBRUARY 1942 BRONX NEW YORK ART IS THE EMPIRICAL FACT OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF OBJECTS TO OBJECTS IN RELATION TO HUMAN BEINGS & NOT DEPENDENT UPON HISTORICAL PRECEDENT FOR EITHER USE OR LEGITIMACY LAWRENCE WEINER
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