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Re: From LAWRENCE WEINER STUDIO

JUL-AUG 2013
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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

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LAWRENCE WEINER 

“A 36” X 36” REMOVAL TO THE LATHING OR SUPPORT WALL OF PLASTER OR WALLBOARD FROM A WALL,” 1968. LANGUAGE + THE MATERIALS REFERRED TO. Weiner constructing the work for <i>When Attitudes Become Form</i>, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, 1969. Photo: Shunk-Kender.
“A 36” X 36” REMOVAL TO THE LATHING OR SUPPORT WALL OF PLASTER OR WALLBOARD FROM A WALL,” 1968. LANGUAGE + THE MATERIALS REFERRED TO. Weiner constructing the work for When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, 1969. Photo: Shunk-Kender.

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Lawrence Weiner

BORN 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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