EMPOWERMENT CANNOT BE TRANSLATED AS ENTITLEMENT

Lawrence Weiner is an old friend at onestar press, and here he has designed a bookcase to hold the famous one-format-fits-all books of the onestar press collection. Lawrence’s elegant clarity has been given a publicly utilitarian purpose in his collaboration with onestar press, and the result is a compressed cornucopia of the artist’s signature design.

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Weiner's main material is language. In 1968 he declared that his works do not have to be constructed by him or even fabricated at all. From that time, his art has consisted of "propositions"—usually texts written on walls—rather than objects.

@ MoMA: Gallery label from Book/Shelf, March 26–July 7, 2008.

The French publishing house onestar press invited Weiner to design a bookshelf to display the artist's books they have produced since 2000. The company's name is a play on "one–star hotel" and refers to the inexpensive digital rotary press the publisher uses.