Sentences with phrase «holzer truism»

Jenny Holzer Truisms: Money Creates Taste, 2013.

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Haroon Mirza has created a new work, which incorporates an LED message display quoting one of American artist Jenny Holzer's «truisms» - short statements and aphorisms that relay generalized beliefs.

In the Survey, art critic and academic David Joselit surveys Holzer's changing oeuvre, from the first appearance of the streetwise Truisms in the late 1970 to her large - scale installations in museums worldwide.

Another highlight is Jenny Holzer's four Truisms, dispersed across the Central and Western District Promenade.

Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist best known for her text - based works, which are constructed from «truisms» such as «abuse of power comes as no surprise» and «protect me from what I want.»

Her most famous work is series of one line utterances called Truisms, witch Holzer displays in different media — light art, posters, T - shirts, and stickers, art objects or huge public LED signboards.

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer («Four Corners: Truisms, Living» and «Torso»), Brigitte Kowanz («Ad infinitum», «Brightness», «Remoteness» and «Vision»), François Morellet («4 í 4 no. 3» and «Lunatique neonly — 16 quarts de cercle No. 6»), Maurizio Nannucci («Listen to your eyes»), Keith Sonnier («Ballroom Chandelier»), James Turrell («Squat, Red»), and Richard Long («Seeming lightness of light»).

Holzer's initial public works, Truisms (1977 — 79), are among her best - known.

Such concise allegations elicit public discussion, directly engaging viewers in a larger discourse on society that often broaches polemical issues.The medium of modern computer systems became an important component in Holzer's work in 1982 when nine of her Truisms flashed at forty - second intervals on the giant spectacolor electronic signboard in Times Square.

Hauser & Wirth's exhibition (spanning all five gallery spaces) will showcase works from across Holzer's career, including her classic Truisms as well as a new LED work commissioned for the show.

Juxtaposing truisms against stable, but living or lively, backdrops would invite comparisons to seasoned conceptual artists such as Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Christopher Wool, or Gillian Wearing; Benjamin and Brunkalla's inception, however, accelerates textual art into the moving image.

Ms. Holzer has also placed 21 of her stone benches carved with «truisms» (such as «Your oldest fears are your worst ones») in nooks around the buildings.

Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual and installation artist who became widely known because of her Truisms series of short aphorisms.

Holzer's first dance project was in 1985, «Holzer Duet... Truisms» with Bill T. Jones.

Artist Jenny Holzer discusses her works For 7 World Trade, Redaction Paintings, and Truisms, as well as her love of clichés and comic relief.

Jenny Holzer's truisms, such as «Abuse of power comes as no surprise» and «Protect me from what I want,» have appeared on posters, billboards, and even condoms, and as LED signs and monumental light projections.

A Jenny Holzer «Truism» — Abuse of power comes as no surprise — was perhaps the most cited artwork of 2017.

The exhibition presents over 100 of the «Truisms» and «Inflammatory Essays» posters Holzer began creating in the late seventies and pasted across New York City a la street art style.

Jennifer Bartlett — Rhapsody Sherrie Levine — After Walker Evans Barbara Kruger — your gaze hits the side of my face Jenny Holzer — truisms Pat Steir — The Brueghel Series (A Vanitas of Style) Anne Truitt — Knights Heritage Georgia O'Keefe — Abstraction Blue Susan Rothenberg — Butterfly Judy Pfaff — Painted Forms: Recent Metal Sculpture, Installation, Whitney 1978 Lee Krasner — white squares Joan Mitchell — Chord IIV Magdalena Abakanowicz — Four on a bench Alice Aycock — Low Building with Dirt Roof Nancy Holt — Sun Tunnels Cindy Sherman — Untitled Film Stills Gorilla girls — Do women have to be naked... Maya Lin — Vietnam Memorial Alice Neal — Portrait of Andy Laurie Anderson — America Parts I — IV Rachel Whiteread — House Diane Arbus — Twins Nan Goldin — The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Sally Mann — Immediate Family Agnes Martin — Untitled Kiki Smith — Standing Linda Benglis — Artforum Advertisement Kara Walker — My Complement, My Oppressor, My Enemy, My Love Louise Bourgeois — spider Helen Frankenthaler — Mountains and Sea Jo Baer — Rook Jackie Winsor — Burnt Piece Eva Hesse — Repetition Nineteen

Jenny Holzer, Truisms 1977 on 16.

Some of the major acquisitions on display include the crimson monolith of Anne Truitt's «Insurrection» (in the «minimal, post-minimal and conceptual» room), Jenny Holzer's scrolling - text «Truisms» (in the «Flow» room), Bruce Nauman's neon word art «Sweet Suite Substitute» (in the «Markers and Signs» room) and George Bellows's «Forty - two Kids» (in the American art section).

This couldn't be more accurate of Holzer's truism «Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise,» which has become endlessly sharable as a powerful slogan for the #metoo movement as of late.

A work by the American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer as part of Castle Square's permanent installation of her Benches series with commentary from her series Truisms and Texts on Survival, Poland.

Jenny Holzer's Truisms, created by distilling an extensive reading list featuring both Eastern and Western literature and philosophy, allow students to visualize and make sense of the larger meaning behind so many of her «summaries».

We also have quite a few women artists represented in the sale, including a politically charged work by Jenny Holzer, Truisms UNEX Sign (1983), an LED piece that leads off our sale.

Jenny Holzer's LED work, «Truisms: UNEX sign,» is among 38 lots going under the gavel at Phillips in New York on May 17.

Presented at the Athens School of Fine Arts, «The Factory,» and taking its title from Jenny Holzer's Truisms, Everything That's Interesting Is New explored the interplay between art and popular culture.

We looked at Barbara Kruger's work and Jenny Holzer's use of truisms, coupling our discussion of Holzer's work with aphorisms and epigrams.

In 2017, visual culture spanned from Arthur Jafa's efforts to create an archive of the black aesthetic to Jenny Holzer's «Truisms» becoming a calling card for the #metoo movement.

Undeniably, I have been affected by my generation's love of Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons but what separates Holzer's impact for me, was the universal nature of her «truisms» that adorn each piece of work.

-- Jenny Holzer, from Truisms, in LARRY CLARK — WHITE TRASH

Jenny Holzer designed the bronze plaque, which features one of the artist's truisms: «It is in your self - interest to find a way to be very tender.»

Many will be familiar with Holzer's well - known Truisms: PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, MONEY CREATES TASTE, YOUR OLDEST FEARS ARE YOUR WORST ONES, LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL.

In 1994 Jenny Holzer published a series of postcards on balsa wood with sayings from her Truisms series.