By choosing language as a medium Lawrence Weiner frees his sculptures from their material form and reduces them to terse formulations, which can only grow into a visual representation in the mind of the beholder. Applied to museum walls, posters, books or even matchboxes, his works take on varying forms. The spatial context in which they find themselves also directs the interpretation.That certainly applies to this work by Weiner, which acquired a permanent place in the entrance hall of the museum in 1985. In the marble curve of the staircase the text cast in bronze loses its neutrality and the work acquires another layer of meaning which takes it out of the context of nature into that of culture.
Specifications
| Title | Worn down |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Bronze |
| Object type |
Sculpture
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 4 cm Width 369,5 cm Thickness 0,5 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Lawrence Weiner
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| Accession number | BEK 1597 (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1985 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1985 |
| Creation date | in 1979 |
| Research |
Show research Digitising Contemporary Art |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The United States of America > North America > America |
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