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Article: Lawrence Weiner at Marian Goodman.(New York)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Since 1968, Lawrence Weiner's chosen medium of expression has been language and its structure. EN ROUTE (2005), a single, complex work in five parts, applied in laser-cut vinyl letters to the gallery walls, introduced his recent exhibition. Each element included the phrase "en route" applied in a highly legible uppercase black sans-serif font, not more than a foot high, bracketed above and below with two bright-blue horizontal bars.
Thus emphasized, the repeated phrase was placed in varying degrees of proximity to five qualifying expressions concerning the existence of simultaneous realities. These phrases were applied in a version of the stencil font that is ...