Jenny+Holzer

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1950. Jenny Holzer's artwork describes torture, or lamenting death and disease with a use of language that provokes a response in the viewer. Her disruptive work is often used in advertisements in public spaces and media such as posters, electronic signs, billboards and T-shirts. Jenny Holzer became recognized since her retrospective PROTECT PROTECT series which had her presentation that incorporated the 2003 Iraq invasion and hand prints of U.S. soldiers accused of war crimes. She provides a range of opinions, attitudes, and voices in works filled with formal beauty, sensitivity and power. She presently lives and works in Hoosick, New York.



Here is a collection of tactical geographical maps and printings that was used by the US military during the Iraq war. The maps are part of Jenny Holzer's collection at the Venice Biennale. These consists of enlarged, painted versions of officially declared government and military material obtained from the American National Security Archive. It describes issues in Guantánamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan as a piece of abstract art.

//**LED (Light-Emitting Diode) **//

Jenny Holzer also began writing early in her career and some of her most well-known texts are the Truisms (1977-9) and Inflammatory Essays (1979-82). In her writings, she uses various media to spread her throughts especially with LED or light-emitting diode. Many things support her LED with oil paintings, passionate letters, and a variety of government documents from the Iraq war hanging on the walls. Holzer also carefully considers every aspects of the signs including its shape, font, and color choice, the speed of the movement of the text and more.

//“I don’t sign my work because I think that would diminish its effectiveness, because then it would be the work of just one person. I would like it to be more useful than that, and to acknowledge other people who had been involved in my work…”// One of her famous LED is called Red Yellow Looming (2004). This electronic artwork touches on "policy-making and piblic debates which developed through presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton". This "also deals with international trade issues including arms and oil, the "war" on terrorism, 9/11, the FBI and CIA and the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003" (Whiteney Museum of American Art). Holzer tried to put forward numerous events in this extraordinary piece of work.

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