Message of Light – For Busan
- Location
- Sandy beach in front of Suyeong-gu Cultural Center
- Size
- 1000 × 1000cm
- Materials
- Projection on B
- Video subtitles
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Name of artist: Jenny Holzer
Title of work: Message of Light
(Background music plays for 23 seconds) Implicative message about our life and society expressed in the language of light, with the Gwangalli Sea as open poetic space
Introduction of work
- Message of Light - For Busan
- Jenny Holzer, US (created in 2007)
In 1977, Jenny Holzer began to shift from painting to “text” work using letters and words for a clearer expression of art.
Her works are presented in the form of hangings or displays of her own written words, maxims and aphorisms on the plane of various media, including art museum walls or the surface of water. Jenny Holzer’s text moves fluidly or looks stationary, containing her introspection about political and social issues, especially about women’s positions in the world.
Jenny Holzer’s works, through the importance given to the language, continue to raise questions about the relations between our readings, between reality and unreality, and between what is expressed in words and what they actually mean.
By Henry-Francois Debailleux (art critic, La Liberation, Paris, France)
Her works are presented in the form of hangings or displays of her own written words, maxims and aphorisms on the plane of various media, including art museum walls or the surface of water. Jenny Holzer’s text moves fluidly or looks stationary, containing her introspection about political and social issues, especially about women’s positions in the world.
Jenny Holzer’s works, through the importance given to the language, continue to raise questions about the relations between our readings, between reality and unreality, and between what is expressed in words and what they actually mean.
By Henry-Francois Debailleux (art critic, La Liberation, Paris, France)
Introduction of artist
- USA（1950~）: Mother of Digital New Media
- 1950 Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, USA
- 1977 Whitney Museum of American Art
- Master’s in the Independent Study Program, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence
- 1972 Bachelor of Fine Arts in engraving and painting, Ohio University
- Lives and works in New York
- Master of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
- Her works have been exhibited at world-renowned art museums, including the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, the Tate Modern Museum in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She stresses the importance given to language by working with texts using letters and words for a clearer expression of art.
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- 최종수정일 : 2024-01-05