Jenny Holzer (Gallipolis, July 29, 1950) is an American artist, considered one of the leading exponents of the latest trends of conceptual art and public art. Its field of action is the placement of short texts in the urban space through the use of various media (paper, LED lights, engraved stones, video). Overall this is a case of defamiliarization media landscape that mimics more traditional advertising and folding devices.
Texts, typographically without any accent calligraphy, consisting mainly of brief statements about the daily life, power, justice and human relations, more insistently in recent years, death and war. The point of view, especially in the early work is often contradictory or ambiguous, while in the latest research there is often more dramatic component.
attended the University of Athens (Ohio), the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where he settled in 1977, where he still lives and works. In a first stage in the late seventies, the size of claims "underground" of their project by refusing to institutional circuitry, consistent with the art of graffiti on the walls at the same time spreading metropolis.
Since 1982, with to install LED lights in Times Square, begins to realize, through public and private funding, increasingly monumental work in places of high concentration of social aprendnosi later also scope gallerist. In 1990, a major artist now full-blown fame, won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.
In 1995, coinciding with the expansion of the web, made his first interactive project for the network modified by the user making some of his best known Truism .
The port's most recent artistic research consists of the projections xenon presented for the first time in Florence in 1996, these works form the light sentences long texts sliding on urban areas, taking unusual features of great visual impact.
