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Culture Index A Compendium of What’s in Play Now Holzer’s LED-lit Monument tower from 2008 projects excerpts from declassified US government documents CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: © 2008 JENNY HOLZER, MEMBER ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY, PHOTO: VASSILIJ GUREEV; © 2001 JENNY HOLZER, MEMBER ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY, PHOTO: ATTILIO MARANZANO; © 2001 JENNY HOLZER, MEMBER ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY, PHOTO: ATTILIO MARANZANO; © 1987 JENNY HOLZER, MEMBER ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY SPEAKING VOLUMES WORD PERFECT American artist Jenny Holzer has been crafting her alphabetic art for 40 years. With seven solo exhibitions and unveilings this year, she could not be more relevant, explains BRIAN NOONE From top: Xenon for Paris, 2001, projected against the city’s iconic Panthéon; matte limestone Memorial Bench II: Eye cut by flying glass…, 1996; a granite bench from 1987’s Under a Rock Before there was Twitter, there was Jenny Holzer. Her textbased art, equal parts sardonic observation and angry political commentary, punches you in the mouth with a wry smile. And now, at the ripe age of 67, she’s having a moment – or, better, she’s prolonging her moment. Holzer’s enigmatic work has been everywhere. In the late 1970s in New York City, she found her voice by anonymously » DEPARTURES-INTERNATIONAL.COM 51
