Jenny Holzer
(Gallipolis, Ohio, 1950 - )
All Fall
2012
Array of five double-sided LED Signs with stainless steel housings: blue and green diodes on front, red and yellow diodes on back
103 1/2 x 95 x 103 1/2 in. (262.9 x 241.3 x 262.9 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Museum Acquisition Fund with funds from The Mary S. and Louis S. Myers Endowment Fund for Painting and Sculpture
2018.14
© 2023 Jenny Holzer / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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In the 1970s Jenny Holzer began papering lower Manhattan with posters bearing selections from her Truisms series— slogan-like sayings suggestive of a universal truth, such as THE ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE. Known for these conceptual, text-based works that question consumerism and challenge power dynamics, Holzer intends to provoke critical dialog through her use of language. Presented here on a series of scrolling LED arrays, the potent passages read almost as advertisements or tweets, echoing our modern modes of communication.
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