"Specific Object Presents Lawrence Weiner's Published Work from The Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project"
Susan Inglett Gallery
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This project by Specific Object presents over 450 items, or published work, by Lawrence Weiner drawn from The Jean-Noël Herlin Archive Project, an archive assembled by Jean-Noël Herlin beginning in 1973 which now contains well over 300,000 physical items documenting over 100,000 international individual artists, collaborators and groups; group events; material pertaining to organizations; and periodicals.
"My archive is an informational structure whose dimensions vary with the incremental expansion of
its parts."
- Jean-Noël Herlin, 2011
The published work by Lawrence Weiner within the exhibition represents a selected chronological history of Weiner's ephemera, artists' books, posters, small multiples and other printed work by or
about Lawrence Weiner from 1969 to 2011.
Herlin's holdings of Weiner's printed work represents one of the largest segments from his Archive Project, with much of the materials coming directly to Herlin from Alice Zimmerman and Lawrence Weiner.
"Before Lawrence there was Alice - who sometime in the mid-1980s walked into my 80 Thompson Street bookshop in Manhattan, introduced herself and, showing me some of Lawrence Weiner's early exhibition documents, said I heard (presumably from Mimi Wheeler - Thank you Mimi) that you might buy these things. I do. Many more and different things followed. A quarter of a century later a show is born."
- Jean-Noël Herlin, 2011
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Schedule
from June 09, 2011 to July 22, 2011