ROME.- Starting from today the film originated from the exhibition TRACCE / TRACES by American artist Lawrence Weiner is available online. The exhibition took place in the summer of 2020, thanks to a series of aerial banners along the coast, from Ladispoli to Anzio.

Produced by MACRO, TRACCE / TRACES was the first solo show by an artist ever presented in the sky that showed a different work every day, from 16 to 25 August 2020, along the coastline most popular with Romans, offering each viewer the possibility – unexpected, for most – of coming into contact with works of art outside the context in which they are usually displayed and observed.

In the film the interpretations and reactions of the public join the artist’s voice and the documentation of the exhibition, articulated through the day to day apparitions of this unique and ephemeral experience.

The exhibition, devised by Luca Lo Pinto, links back to the book of the same title produced in 1970 for Galleria Sperone, curated by Germano Celant, who edited the translation. Exactly fifty years after the release of the publication, the artist has selected ten of the fifty works included in the book. They all consist of a single word, corresponding to the past participle of a verb that, isolated and removed from any syntactic context, lend themselves to open interpretation.

Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) has been one of the leading figures of the contemporary art avant-garde, as well as one of the foremost Conceptual artists who contributed in the redefinition of the paradigms of the work of art, its production and distribution. For Weiner, art can exist as a mere declaration of intent, as well as in its concrete realization.