Lisson Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Lawrence Weiner, one of the most significant and influential artists of his generation, February 6⁍arch 15. This will be Weiner’s second solo show at the Lisson Gallery and coincides with the artist’s first major US retrospective, “As Far As The Eye Can See,” closing at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, in February and traveling to MOCA, Los Angeles, this spring.
Concurrent with the Weiner exhibition, the gallery will present Austrian artist Florian Pumhösl’s first major solo exhibition in London. The exhibition will feature a new 16 mm film animation and new paintings from the series “Modernology.” The paintings on glass reproduce minimal geometric motifs, which refer to the abstract language of Twentieth Century Dutch and Russian avant-gardes. His new animation employs techniques and motifs of early scientific and abstract experimental film-making, to continue the artist’s reflections on the cinematic apparatus and its implications.
For almost 40 years, Weiner has investigated the nature of language and offered a radical redefinition of the relationship between the artist and the viewer. His investigations into linguistic structures and visual systems have resulted in a wide body of work that includes books, films, videos, performances and audio works. Weiner considers language to be a sculptural material and believes that a construction in language can function as a sculpture, just like more traditional fabricated objects.
Weiner was born in 1942 in New York and currently lives between Amsterdam and New York. He was involved in seminal shows of the 1960s, including an exhibition organized by Seth Siegelaub at Windham College, Vermont, in 1968; “Primary Structures” in 1966 at the Jewish Museum, New York and “When Attitudes become form” in 1969 at Kunsthalle, Bern.
Pumhösl’s work questions the universal claims of the language of Modernism. He focuses particularly on strategies of appropriation, citation and montage and the research of art and architecture avant-gardes as the aesthetic equivalent to the mechanization of industrial production.
Pumhösl was born in 1971 in Vienna and lives and works there. He studied at the Höhere Grafische Bundes-lehr und Versuchsanstalt and at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna.
Lisson Gallery is at 29 and 52-54 Bell Street. For information, www.northeastgunshows.com or 20 7724 2739.
