Writing’s on the wall, conceptually

record in translating work into Scots, having translated several books for children and young people. He jumped at the invitation to work with Weiner, who is a hugely influential figure in international contemporary art.

Weiner’s cycle of ten texts were created in 1988 as standalone artworks. All were produced in his studio with no specific site in mind and have been exhibited in various ways since their creation.

The artist – who spends much of his time in Amsterdam – was unable to travel to Dundee but the two men corresponded intensively about the translation of his texts before the show opened. The fruits of the RobertsonWeiner collaboration are on display in a rare Weiner mini-retrospective in the McManus, which includes a selection of his works on paper, archival material and ephemera. This room offers an overview of five decades of the artist’s prolific career, and features material on loan from the Tate and the Artists’ Books Collection Dundee (abcD) at the University of Dundee.