Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
Jenny Holzer lives and works in New York. In 1990 she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale where she won the Leone d'Oro for Best Pavilion. Solo shows include ICA, London, 1988, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1991, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2001, 2011, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2006, Whitney Museum, New York, 2009, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, 2009, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, 2010, and BALTIC, Gateshead, 2010. Group shows include Whitney Museum, New York, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1996, Documenta 8, Kassel, 1987, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, MoMA, New York, 1988, 1992, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2008, Hayward Gallery, London, 1992, Venice Biennale, Venice, 2005, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2008, and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011.
Jenny HolzerSelection from Truisms: A sense of timing...
Text: Truisms, 1977-79, 2014 Cipollino Cremo Tirreno marble, text inscription
Jenny HolzerEven with your eyes closed..., 1981 Enamel on metal, hand-painted sign: black on white
Jenny HolzerBlue Laments Arno and Amber Truisms Living, 2008 Curved LED signs with blue and amber diodes
Jenny HolzerDamage is done by the tacit understanding..., 1981 Text: 'Living' (1980–1982); text on cast bronze plaque
Jenny HolzerTOP SECRET//STLW//HCS/COMINT//ORCON/NOFORN
Text: U.S. government document, 2017 Graphite and watercolour on vellum
Jenny HolzerSTATEMENT - Truisms +, 2015 Four-sided vertical LED sign: RGB diodes; stainless steel
Ocula Report Sydney Contemporary Wrap 15 Sep 2015 : Jane O’Sullivan for Ocula A marble bench sat out of the front of the Pearl Lam Galleries stand at the Sydney Contemporary art fair last week. Inscribed with Chinese characters, and without a card stating the artist or artwork title, many visitors simply passed it by.Those who could read the inscription, and those who asked, found out it said: Don’t put too...
Ocula Report Total Abstraction: A Report From Art Basel Miami Beach 11 Dec 2013 : Stephanie Bailey for Ocula General consensus? This years edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach was better than the last. Everything was “more” – more vibrancy, daring choices, and a more buoyant market. The Public program at Collin’s Park was a complete success, featuring performance pieces by artists including Ryan McNamara, Mungo Thomson and David...
Related Press Jenny Holzer’s piercing beacons of truth light up Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Wallpaper* : 29 March 2019 Jenny Holzer was 26 when she arrived in New York. The freshman art student at the Whitney Museum had grown up in Gallipolis, Ohio, a sleepy town in America's Midwest, and had spent her early twenties jumping from place to place in search of her artistic identity. She started out as an abstract expressionist. Then she tried to capture the human form...
Related Press San Francisco’s New Transit Center Features Public Art by Jenny Holzer, Julie Chang, and Ned Kahn Hyperallergic : 7 August 2018 With their lobbying efforts beginning in 2006, the San Francisco Arts Commission convinced the intergovernmental agency developing the center to commit $4.75 million to on-site public art. Ranging from designed floors to interactive fountains, this funding supported work by James Carpenter, Julie Chang, Jenny Holzer, and Ned Kahn. These works are...
Related Press MASS MoCA: It’s a Site for All Eyes The New York Times : 15 June 2017 MASS MoCA, the vast, multibuilding museum of contemporary art here, is a weird and wonderful place. For one, the dominance of brick walls, wood floors, big windows and frequent columns of its repurposed 19th-century factory buildings is the apotheosis of SoHo, whose small-industry loft spaces were taken over by commercial art galleries in the...
Related Press A Museum Where Giant Art Has Room to Breathe The New York Times : 26 May 2017 The master plan for MASS MoCA in 1986 was a wildly ambitious dream: to simultaneously rehabilitate all 28 buildings of a shuttered 19th-century factory in this depressed Berkshire County town for the long-term display of monumental art installations.
