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ARTIST ROOMS: The d'Offay Donation
Jenny Holzer (born 1950)
One room comprising a digital text piece BLUE PURPLE TILT, 2007 and two paintings Protect Protect and Shape the Battlefield, both 2007.
The conceptual artist Jenny Holzer came to prominence in the late 1970s. She uses provocative statements in exhibitions or other public places to elicit debate. Her text-based works present and call into question the rhetorical strategies of different forms of speech and writing, from philosophical tracts to fundamentalist preaching. The selection of works from The d’Offay Donation demonstrates the flexibility of her approach. BLUE PURPLE TILT consists of seven double-sided vertical LED signs on which a selection of messages from several of Holzer’s early text series run. Protect Protect and Shape the Battlefield are two large paintings from a recent series in which Holzer presents declassified American military documents relating to the current war in Iraq.
BLUE PURPLE TILT 2007
Seven double-sided vertical LED signs
unconfirmed, each unit: 3810 x 137 x 1270 mm; unconfirmed, overall installation dimensions: 3810 x 2290 x 1270 mm installation
© 2008 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photography: CLEMENTS / HOWCROFT, Boston
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