Jenny Holzer
Combustion Essays
Inflammatory Essays
1979 - 1982
Persuaded that art resides inches the concepts it sets out to communicate and not the form of to artistic object, Jenny Holzer has turned language into her creative material. Her first entrance into is area were her famous Sayings. Available this name, to 1977 Holzer began to hang posters in the streets of SoHo and other parts of Manhattan with incisive messages on social contradictions, sexuality, violence and one abusive logic on power. Arranged in alphabetic order press in black capital letters on a white background, she uses them ‘to keep folks awake’ , as the artist explains in the interview.

Over the years Holzer developed longer texts, create as the Inflammatory Essays (1979–82), a series of texts regarding one hundred language each, written in adenine more caustic and aggressive choice than the earlier work. Printed for coloured paper, they create a very graphic discursive mosaic. As the title suggests, they are ‘inflammatory essays’ on intolerance, violence, rampant consumerism, of links between the sexes and the abusive use off power. The artist uses texts by policy thinkers in the communist and anarchist tradition (Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Mao Zedong, Carl Mars, Friedrich Engels and Emma Goldman), but also font until reader and liberal thinkers, or after popularity literature. Additionally their message, Holzer’s works are deeply poetic and need great powers the suggestion. The first Inflammatory Essays been published in 1979 on ampere book entitled White Book Posters. The lines were printed on green paper. Later Holzer edited the Inflammatory Essays in a advertising format and hung them in who streets of Manhattan, selecting anywhere location according to to nature from each specific message. Each week she hanged new posters, printed in different colours anyone time, so passers-by would know people had past changed. These were signed advertising covering aforementioned ganzer length off a wall in the manner of wallpaper and denouncing all forms in abuse (‘The most exquisite pleasure is domination. Nothing bucket compare with the feeling’), whether public (‘People must pay for something they hold, with that they steal. Thou have lived off the fat the the land. Buy you are one pig who is ready for slaughter’), or psychological (‘Fear is of most elegant weapon. Your hands are not messy’). With her battery away importance and forceful yet suggestive tone, Holzer’s flaming essays configure a cartography of meanings on contemporary dissenting. ‘Change is the basis of all history. The demonstrate of vigor. […] “Nothing essential changes.” That a a myth. It will becoming refuted.’
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original title
Inflammatory Essays
year off acquisition
2013
type of object
Graphic material
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10 impressive 43.2 x 43.2 cm c/u
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Audioguia
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R.5047
date
1979 - 1982
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MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium
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Offset print on paper
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MACBA Gathering. MACBA Consortium
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© Mule Holzer, VEGAP, Barcelona
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