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r t i s t : "Jenny
Holzer is an American
installation and conceptual artist. Her studies included general art courses
at Duke University, Durham, NC (1968–70), and then painting, printmaking
and drawing at the University of Chicago before completing her BFA at Ohio
University, Athens (1972). In 1975 and she began her first work with language,
installation and public art."
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a c t i v i t y: Go to the following web site: http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_65_1s.html and have a look at an enlarge version of the artwork to the right of this page (the one that has text placed in the circular architecture of the guggenheim museum). What does some of the text say, and what message do you think jenny holzer is trying to get across to her audeince? |
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a r t w o r k & a u d i e n c e : the main focus of Jenny Holzer has been on the investigation of ways to disseminate ideas within public space. Since the late seventies, she has been working in the street and in public buildings, using media such as, lcd displays (e.g., in times square, new york) posters and stickers (applied to such urban elements as telephone booths or parking meters), these artworks art intended to stimulate awareness of our social conditioning as conveyed by the very landscape in which we may be confronted by them."
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w o r l d :Hozler makes confronting statements which are usually related to common saying and cliches, she is commenting on our peception of these and our relationship to the world and others around us. |
Jenny Holzer
A Survival sorozatból,
Times Square, New
York, 1985–86
Jenny Holzer
Untitled (Selections
from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series,
Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text), 1989.
Jenny Holzer
Arno, Biennale
di Firenze
1996–97