Cool Hunting
If you're in London over the next week, then come dusk, you'll see the projections by Jenny Holzer gracing some of the city's better-known buildings, like City Hall, Somerset House and The Barbican. Holzer's now in her fifties, and cut her teeth in 1970s New York, where she posted her truisms all over the city. Since then her "high-class graffiti," as its been called, has employed various types of media in cities all over the world, and has become grander and grander in scale.
These latest works in London are her first here since the 1980s, and form part of the Beckett Centenary Festival. The words being projected are taken from the works of Samuel Beckett, as well as other celebrated poets. They'll be turned on between 7:30pm and 11pm, and run for a week from 7 April 2006.
Also on Cool Hunting: Jenny Holzer: For New York, Jenny Holzer at Helmut Lang
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