How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.
It’s an unusual way to meet him, given that almost 40 years ago Mr. Weiner decided that words would serve almost exclusively as raw material for his art: words spoken, sung, painted on walls, printed in books and on matchbooks, stamped on coins or manhole covers or elsewhere. In 1968, in a declaration of principles that has become a founding document of Conceptual art (a category that Mr. Weiner, as you might expect, views with great suspicion), he wrote:
“1. The artist may construct the piece.
“2. The piece may be fabricated.
“3. The piece need not be built.
“Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.”
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