Jenny Holzer's menacing (and sometimes humorous) "Truisms" first appeared in the late 1970s in a variety of formats, but initially as a type of street art.
Over the past four decades Holzer has created an impressive oeuvre consisting of objects, sculpture, and public art...often revisiting the slogans and sayings she first introduced at the debut of her career. Holzer has focused on perhaps a dozen of the original "Truisms" and revisited them in an array of media ranging from billboards to t-shirts, from marble benches to pencils.
Holzer's text-based pieces have typically provoked the public to consider the power structures that surround us. In this work, Holzer lends one of her Truisms "All Things are Delicately Interconnected," in support of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The phrase is rendered in a luminous silver leaf against a nearly monochromatic elephant gray backdrop. Executed in elegant calligraphy, the text delicately ribbons across the surface of the work, curling and looping as each letter intertwines with the next.
As with the best of her work, the medium accelerates the message, transforming a simple expression into a nuanced exploration of interconnectivity in the context of Earth Day.
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"All Things are Delicately Interconnected"
USA, 2020
Screenprint, acrylic pewter ink, and palladium leaf-sized with enamel ink
From an edition of 100
18"H 22"W (work)
Very good condition
Printed by Powerhouse Arts, New York; Published by Hauser & Wirth Editions.
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