{"product_id":"weiner-lawrence-twenty-works-doffay-1980","title":"LAWRENCE WEINER — Twenty Works — Anthony d'Offay, London, 1980","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition poster produced for Lawrence Weiner's show \u003cem\u003eTwenty Works\u003c\/em\u003e at Anthony d'Offay, 23 Dering Street, London, 22 October–19 November 1980. Offset lithograph in black and blue on white paper, 49 × 64 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poster is structured as a two-column register ruled in blue, each cell containing one of twenty language works in bold uppercase type. Gallery address, exhibition dates and private view details occupy a ruled footer box in the same typographic register as the works themselves — institutional information and artistic statement held within an identical frame, neither subordinate to the other. E-artexte catalogues the sheet as both exhibition ephemera and a work of art. An example is held by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1980 Weiner had been working with language as sculptural material for over a decade. His statements — describing materials, actions, movement, spatial relations — do not require physical realisation. They can remain as words. They circulate through walls, books, posters, sound. MoMA describes these works as sculptures made from language; Tate emphasises the active relationship between the statement and whoever receives it. The exhibition also entered recorded speech: William Furlong's conversation with Weiner about the twenty London works was issued by Audio Arts in 1980, the same year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poster performs a related operation in print. Twenty works are compressed into one portable sheet — folded, circulated, opened, retained. Presented during the opening year of d'Offay's contemporary programme at 23 Dering Street, the sheet does not simply document the exhibition. It carries it forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twenty works: An Object Tossed from One Country to Another · The Arctic Circle Shattered · A Turbulence Induced Within a Body of Water · Folded · To the Sea · Slowly Raised Water · Done Without · Over the Hill · As If It Could · To Show and to Tell · Made Quietly · (Turned) Red as Well as Black · Taken to a Point of Tolerance · Often Replayed (Played Again) · With Relation to Reason (Often) Moved About · (Often) Moved About Within the Context of (A) Reason · Some Things (Packed Up) Some Things (Laid Down) All Overdue · Having Been Brought Back at a Point of Passage · Blown Away Under Certain Circumstances · Many Objects Put Upon Many Other Objects in Place of Some Other Objects No Longer Used to Form a Pile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good; previously folded into sections, with pronounced fold lines, handling creases, light surface marking, minor edge wear and age toning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony d'Offay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54052962632018,"sku":"WEINER-DOFFAY-POST-1980","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Weiner_Lawrence._Exhibition_Poster_Twenty_works._1980.jpg?v=1784615196","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/weiner-lawrence-twenty-works-doffay-1980","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}