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Lawrence Weiner
: Dicht Bij
24 January–28 March 2010
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL)
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Dicht Bij: Thinking about the work of Lawrence Weiner for the exhibition as it came to be
Maria Hlavajova
Lawrence Weiner came to the Netherlands in the early 1960s, and the inspiring character of the Dutch art scene made him return in 1970 to stay here in some way until today. Back then Amsterdam was one of the productive “point[s] of unrest” in the world as he called it. The city, with its particular lifestyle and internationality (epitomized in the field of art, as he recalled, by a scene active …