Show (&) Tell: The Films & Videos of Lawrence Weiner.

Bartomeu Mari

Show (&) Tell/ The Films & Videos of Lawrence Weiner. A catalogue raisonné

Gent, Belgium: Imschoot Uitgevers, 1992 

148 pp., 21 x 28,5 cm., hardcover

Edition size unknown

A catalogue raisonné of the films and videos by Lawrence Weiner, edited by Bartomeu Mari and Alice Weiner, with a preface by R.H. Fuchs. The book is designed by Lum Derycke with Lawrence Weiner.

Lawrence Weiner | WATER IN MILK EXISTS

Lawrence Weiner

WATER IN MILK EXISTS

New York City, USA: Swiss Institute, 2008

Set of 4 glasses

Edition of 100

Watches

 

Artist wristwatches by Kelly Mark, Keith Haring, Yoko Ono, Damian Hirst, Lawrence Weiner, Alighiero Boetti, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Marie-Ange Guilleminot. 

See also: Clocks. 

David Bellingham | Hour Hand/Minute Hand

David Bellingham

Hour Hand/Minute Hand

Glasgow, Scotland: Wax366, 2019

5.2 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm.

Edition of 100 numbered copies

The latest addition to our modest Time Piece collection is this David Bellingham work from 2019. Seven of the below nine works are functional, and this is also, in that the piece is wearable. It consists of an hour and minute hand repurposed from watch hands, set in stirling silver stud earrings. 

It’s a nice accidental sister work to Colleen Savage’s Horological Ornithology, which frees non-cuckoo birds from cuckoo clocks (see post here). 

Hour Hand/Minute Hand is available from the publisher, here, for £100.00.

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner died on this day two years at the age of 79. 

Lawrence Weiner | MOI + TOI & NOUS

Lawrence Weiner

MOI + TOI & NOUS

Toronto, Canada: Shark Editions, 1995

2.5 x 24.5 x 5.5 cm

Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies

Published by John Goodwin's Shark Editions (who also produced works by Mark Dion, Moyra Davey, Maurizio Nannucci, Hans Peter Feldmann and many others), this battery powered wrist watch features a custom rubber band and is housed in a hinged gift box and slip case, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate. The face of the watch features Weiner's text MOI + TOI & NOUS, with X's and O's representing the hours.

The intended edition of 500 was never realized, and only 350 copies were produced.

The work is valued at approximately $450.00 US.

Lawrence Weiner | All in Due Course

Lawrence Weiner

All in Due Course

London, UK: South London Gallery, 2014

10.5 x 15 cm.

Edition size unknown

A temporary tattoo (4 x 9 cm.) mounted on a backing card, produced for the South London Gallery bookshop to accompany the exhibition of the same name, which ran from September 26th to November 23rd, 2014. 

Lawrence Weiner died in December of 2021, at the age of 79. 

Lawrence Weiner | causality AFFECTED AND/OR EFFECTED

Lawrence Weiner

causality AFFECTED AND/OR EFFECTED

New York City, USA: Leo Castelli and Eminent Publications, 1971

[80] pp., 16.5 x 10.8 cm., spiral bound

Edition of 1000

Lawrence Weiner's sixth artist book features a series of text works on cause and affect/effect. The title is spiral-bound with a protective mylar cover. The title is valued at around $500, depending on condition. 

Lawrence Weiner | Under Lime Trees

Lawrence Weiner

Under Lime Trees

Zurich, Switzerland: Parkett Editions, 1994

Stamp, red ink pad in silkscreened cardboard box

Edition of 80 signed and numbered copies.

“The dialectical beauty of Weiner’s work is its extreme freedom of meaning coupled with fundamentally being about what it says it’s about.” 

- Daniela Salvioni, Parkett No. 42, 1994

“An influential conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner is known for his language-based sculptures and works pursuing inquiries into language and a radical redefinition of the artist/viewer relationship … As in “Unter den Linden – Under Lime Trees”, the rubberstamp and image of the homonymous street in Berlin …, the value of his works exists in the idea itself, as expressed in words. Considering language to be a sculptural material and believing that a construction in language can function as sculpture as adequately as a fabricated object, Weiner's works operate beyond the specificity and constraints of traditional presentation.” 

-Artsy

Available from Artsy, here, for €1,200.00.

Weiner died in December of last year, at the age of 79.