Jenny Holzer - Trace
Jenny Holzer - Trace
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One of the most important artists working today, Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) presents her astringent ideas, arguments, joys, and sorrows using language as her medium. Beginning in the 1970s with anonymous street posters in Downtown Manhattan and continuing in recent years with light projections, mobile led signs, and experiments with artificial intelligence, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and courage.
The phrases in this artist book were selected by Holzer from three of her pioneering text series: Truisms (1977–79), Living (1980–82), and Survival (1983–85). Truisms takes the form of familiar maxims and clichés to examine the foundations on which society’s beliefs, mores, and truths are built. Living is a set of quiet observations, directions, and admonitions that comment on the ways we negotiate our individual lives. Survival offers a similar mix of warning and questioning, but delivered with more urgency.
Holzer’s selections from these series are presented here in the form of ethereal graphite tracings, a nod to the preparatory drawings she has used to create stone benches. These provocative yet poetic writings continue to illuminate our unstable and unpredictable world.
Trace is published on the occasion of the exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 17–September 29, 2024. Organized by Associate Curator of Collections Lauren Hinkson, Light Line is a stunning reimagination of Holzer’s landmark 1989 LED installation at the Guggenheim, climbing all six ramps of the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda to the building’s apex. Expanding on the artist’s vision from thirty-five years ago, this exhibition also features paintings, stonework, posters, and drawings, some of which are represented in this book.
Edited by Jenny Holzer
With contributions by Lauren Hinkson
Published in 2024
248 pages with 59 illustrations
Softcover
9 × 4.5 inches
ISBN 9780892075652
© Guggenheim Museum
* Please note that colors may slightly differ between the screen and the actual product.
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