Installation for Bilbao - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
A visit to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao (Biscay), Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
The building, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, was built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city to the Cantabrian Sea. A work of contemporary architecture, it has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something", according to architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.
Installation for Bilbao 1997/2017.
By Jenny Holzer. Electronic LED sign.
Couldn't record videos in here, so took multiple photos in a setting that took multiple frames.
Jenny Holzer began her first series, Truisms, in 1977 as a distillation of an erudite reading list from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, where she was a student; by 1979 she had written several hundred of these one-liners. Beginning with A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY and ending with YOUR OLDEST FEARS ARE YOUR WORST ONES, the Truisms employ a variety of voices and express a wide spectrum of biases and beliefs. If any consistent viewpoint emerges in the edgy, stream-of-consciousness provocations, it is that truth is relative and that each viewer must participate in determining what is legitimate and what is not. Since the Truisms, Holzer has continued to use language as her primary medium and has employed myriad ways to convey her messages. Selections from her Inflammatory Essays series (1979–82), for example, appeared on unsigned, commercially printed posters pasted on buildings and walls around Manhattan.
When phrases by Holzer such as ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE and MONEY CREATES TASTE flashed from the Spectacolor board above Times Square in 1982, it marked her first appropriation of electronic signage. This mode of dissemination brought her disquieting messages to a new height of subversive social engagement. Her strategy—placing surprising texts where normal signage is expected—gives Holzer direct access to a large public that might not give "art" any consideration, while allowing her to undermine forms of power and control that often go unnoticed. Her installations over the last three decades have raised questions about the viability of public art, the commodification and consumption of art, and the relationship between the personal and the political.
Installation for Bilbao - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
A visit to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao (Biscay), Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
The building, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, was built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city to the Cantabrian Sea. A work of contemporary architecture, it has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something", according to architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.
Installation for Bilbao 1997/2017.
By Jenny Holzer. Electronic LED sign.
Couldn't record videos in here, so took multiple photos in a setting that took multiple frames.
Jenny Holzer began her first series, Truisms, in 1977 as a distillation of an erudite reading list from the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, where she was a student; by 1979 she had written several hundred of these one-liners. Beginning with A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY and ending with YOUR OLDEST FEARS ARE YOUR WORST ONES, the Truisms employ a variety of voices and express a wide spectrum of biases and beliefs. If any consistent viewpoint emerges in the edgy, stream-of-consciousness provocations, it is that truth is relative and that each viewer must participate in determining what is legitimate and what is not. Since the Truisms, Holzer has continued to use language as her primary medium and has employed myriad ways to convey her messages. Selections from her Inflammatory Essays series (1979–82), for example, appeared on unsigned, commercially printed posters pasted on buildings and walls around Manhattan.
When phrases by Holzer such as ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE and MONEY CREATES TASTE flashed from the Spectacolor board above Times Square in 1982, it marked her first appropriation of electronic signage. This mode of dissemination brought her disquieting messages to a new height of subversive social engagement. Her strategy—placing surprising texts where normal signage is expected—gives Holzer direct access to a large public that might not give "art" any consideration, while allowing her to undermine forms of power and control that often go unnoticed. Her installations over the last three decades have raised questions about the viability of public art, the commodification and consumption of art, and the relationship between the personal and the political.