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Jenny Holzer
Opens: 05/03/2010 Closes: 16/05/2010
BALTIC, Gateshead
Terrifying truths mark out this significant show of Holzer’s output since 2000. Huge LED installations bearing her politically charged sentences reprise her earlier work, and recent paintings bearing extracts from declassified US military emails and documents refer to occurrences in Guantanamo.
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The Times“Text art gives me problems...” Just as good words are best left to good wordsmiths, so insightful political journalism is best left to insightful journalists...
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The Telegraph“Her new show at Baltic is a coup for the North East...” Holzer is one of the most respected, sought-after artists of her generation. Occupying two floors, this is by some distance the largest exhibition of the artist's work to have been seen in Britain, and considerably the richest...
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The Observer“Art that speaks the language of journalism...” These are conventional works; any artist could have made them. Holzer's strength lies in the medium, not the message. She can make a cliche mysterious or a haiku monumental...
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The Independent“Just make sure you bring your dark glasses...” The epic For Chicago scrolls five hours of selected writings, lit up in dazzling amber as they move relentlessly back and forth across the floor space on eleven LED signs. It is visually impressive...
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Guardian“The artist has a good feel for the potent phrase...” Holzer's work infers a complex, often malevolent totalitarian world. In the end, it's all too much to take in – what one is left with is atmosphere, and in my case, a creeping sense of paranoia...
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