Lawrence Weiner
Suomi Finland Passi Port Passport

, 2012

Numbered paperback booklet, 36 pages, full color illustrations, handwritten text

13.5 x 10 cm (5.3 x 4 in)

Edition of 450

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About Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was born in 1942 in New York and is one of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual art. Over a career that has spanned half a century, he has seen the predominant style shift from Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism, has witnessed the popularization of machine-made or industrially produced art and the rise of positing ideas as the central tenet of art. Throughout his multifaceted career Lawrence Weiner has… Read more

About the artwork

Weiner's poetry is disarmingly simple. Riffing on an installation by artist Alfredo Jaar, One Million Finnish Passports, in which a million blank passports were piled up to speak about illegal immigration and displacement, Weiner used the device of his friend and colleague, to turn one such passport into a booklet of musings and a metaphor of his own. Suomi Finland Passi Port Passport is the identity of the artist, his calling card, and his certificate of existence. Weiner's work, his musings, his hopes, and desires, rolled into a plaintive song about waves, and water, love, and a floating sense of longing.