Claude Rutault and Lawrence Weiner

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portrait by Jeremy Liebman

Legendary french painter CLAUDE RUTAULT was in New York City to present his first-ever solo exhibition in the United States at the Galerie Perrotin in New York. While in town, he met up with an old friend, the American conceptual artist LAWRENCE WEINER for this interview.

interview by ALEXIS DAHAN
portrait by JEREMY LIEBMAN

All Claude Rutault photos by Yachin Parham and courtesy of Galerie Perrotin.

 

Fifty years ago European and American artists came up with the idea that simply thinking about art could lead to new ways of making it. They took art deeper into the mind than the eyes could perceive, straight into the realm of thought. French artist Claude Rutault and American artist Lawrence Weiner began as abstract painters, then started to make art delimited by descriptive analogy. Weiner stenciled statements, such as “To See and Be Seen,”…