Art Institute of Chicago

TAKEN FROM HERE TO WHERE IT CAME FROM AND TAKEN TO A PLACE AND USED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT IT CAN ONLY REMAIN AS A REPRESENTATION OF WHAT IT WAS WHERE IT CAME FROM

Lawrence Weiner · 1980

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, New York, December 1980 [correspondence from artist, copy in curatorial object file]; donated to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sculpture, June 27-Sept. 22 1985, no cat. no.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Works From the Beginning of the Sixties Towards the End of the Eighties, Nov. 19, 1988-Jan. 1, 1989, cat. 481.
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Schauplatz Museumquartier, Jan. 28-Mar. 31, 1997, no cat.
Chicago, The Pond, Ideal Avalanche, Apr. 26-June 8, 2002, no cat.
Pelham, NY, Pelham Art Center, Pictures are the Problem, Mar. 11-Apr. 11, 2005, no cat.
Leuven, Belgium, STUCK artcentre - Stuk Kunstencentrum VZW, Living Currency, Nov. 8-Nov. 10, 2007, no cat.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lawrence Weiner: As Far as the Eye Can See, Nov. 15, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008, cat. 481; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Apr. 13, 2008-July 14, 2008; Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sept. 27, 2008-Jan. 4, 2009.
Bury England, Bury Art Gallery and Museum, Bloom, May 1, 2010-July 17, 2010, no cat.
London, Orel Art UK, Valery Chtak: Painting is a Dead Language, June 25-Aug. 13, 2010, not in cat.
Amsterdam, Extempore Temporary Contemporary Art Museum, ETCAMA: The Problem of Everything, June 15, 2013-July 28, 2013, no cat.
Annandale-on-Hudson, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Picture Industry, June 24-Dec. 15, 2017, no cat. no.; Arles, LUMA Arles, Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Oct. 12, 2018-Jan. 6, 2019.
Beijing, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, LAWRENCE WEINER: CUT & SPLICED & KEPT TOGETHER, July 20-Oct. 20, 2024, no. A1 (exh. guide).

Literature

Published references

Lawrence Weiner, Sculpture, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1985), n.p.
Lawrence Weiner, Lawrence Weiner: werken vanaf het begin van de jaren zestig tot aan het einde van de jaren tachtig = works from the beginning of the sixties towards the end of the eighties, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1988), 38, cat. 481.
Donna M De Salvo, Ann Goldstein, and Kathryn Chiong, Lawrence Weiner: As Far as the Eye Can See, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007), 399, cat. 481.
Donna M De Salvo, Ann Goldstein, and Kathryn Chiong, Lawrence Weiner: As Far as the Eye Can See, exh. cat. (Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2008), 32.
Douglas Druick, et al., The Essential Guide, third edition (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 136 (color ill.).
Douglas Druick, et al., The Essential Guide, fourth edition (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 152 (color ill.).
Walead Beshty, Picture industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, exh. cat. (Feldmeilen, Switzerland: LUMA Foundation, 2018), 851.
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, LAWRENCE WEINER: CUT & SPLICED & KEPT TOGETHER, exh. guide (Beijing: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, 2024), n.p., A1

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