Laerence Weiner

Some Sand + Some Heat

Inscription on the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, 2000

Lawrence Weiner is besides Douglas Huebler and Joseph Kossuth one of the most significant American conceptual artists, who started their international career in the late 1960s in New York. Throughout his practice Weiner has pursued inquiries into language and a radical definition of the artist/viewer relationship. By actively incorporating language into his work, Lawrence Weiner employs words as mediators of visual meaning. He transforms his ideas and thinking into inscriptions that can emerge in the most unusual places, such as book covers, stickers and walls of buildings, where art is not expected to be seen. SOME SAND + SOME HEAT referrs to the glass–making tradition in Loraine (France) and was originally placed on a local glass factory’s chimney. The statement’s arbitrariness turns into a game for viewers who by searching for hidden, symbolic meanings in their memory and cultural education, consider the work and try to understand it.