Jenny Holzer. War Paintings

Jenny Holzer, Xenon for the Peggy Guggenheim, 2003, Light projection. Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Granda, Venezia
© by Jenny Holzer / Ph. Attilio Maranzano | Jenny Holzer, Xenon for the Peggy Guggenheim, 2003, Light projection. Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Granda, Venezia

 

From 06 Maggio 2015 to 22 Novembre 2015

Venice

Place: Museo Correr

Address: Piazza San Marco

Times: Everyday from 10am to 7pm

Responsibles: Thomas Kellein

Organizers:

  • Written Art Foundation di Francoforte
  • Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Ticket price: a single ticket valid for the Doge’s Palace and the combined itinerary of Museo Correr, Museo Archeologico Nazionale and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: full € 17, reduced € 10, free under 5 yrs.

Telefono per informazioni: +39 041 2405211

E-Mail info: info@fmcvenezia.it

Official site: http://correr.visitmuve.it


In cooperation with the Written Art Foundation of Frankfurt, Germany, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer.

A collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale, the Correr show will open on May 6, 2015 and remain on view through November 22, 2015. The works on exhibit at Museo Correr have been selected from a decade of the artist’s war paintings, a significant departure from the LED installations for which Holzer is best known. Curated by Dr. Thomas Kellein, a special catalogue will be published in collaboration with the artist.

The exhibition takes as its starting point declassified and other sensitive U.S. government documents concerning the global War on Terror that followed the events of September 11, 2001, as well as the United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Holzer’s paintings are drawn from memoranda, planning maps, diplomatic communiqués, interrogation records, autopsy reports, and the handwritten cride coeur of detainees themselves – which prior to release to the public, the censor heavily redacted.

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