The IKG mourns the death of its member Lawrence Weiner. Weiner born in 1942 in the Bronx of New York City passed away on December 2, 2021 just there.
Lawrence Weiner became an artist when one morning he decided not to go to work after school, but to the studio. Weiner began to paint, but it was also and above all language that was to become his medium, and which he added as a sculptur of words to the traditional media – stone, wood, metal, clay. As one of the founders of conceptual art, he was never concerned with simply “adding a new department to art history,” Art was a social concern for him.
At the opening of his last major exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, “WHEREWITHAL | WHAT IT TAKES,” in the fall of 2016, he said that he was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain his optimism. Although this is so important: Why? “Already because of the younger ones. Give them a chance.” We are now looking on, without him: “As Far as the Eye Can See.”