Venue:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curators:
This project was coordinated by Sandro Rumney and Art of This Century, in collaboration with Nicolas Hélion.

Artist:
Jenny Holzer.

Exhibition description:
During the 60th Venice Film Festival, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presented a series of night-time xenon text projections on the Grand Canal by artist Jenny Holzer. Using the façades of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and the opposite Ca’ Corner as “screens,” a wide selection of Holzer’s texts were projected each night after dark. First appearing in the waters of the Grand Canal, the words then scrolled upwards across the buildings and disappeared in the night sky. Holzer had been working with the medium xenon since 1996. Projected in gigantic lettering at night, texts and statements are thrown onto urban spaces to create ephemeral images of cinematic beauty. Moreover, Holzer’s relationship to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is long-standing. In 1990, Holzer was awarded the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale for her exhibition that was hosted by the US Pavilion, owned and operated by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. In 2001, Holzer gave Garden Bench to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a stone bench with an inscribed text, now exhibited permanently in the museum’s sculpture garden.

Partnerships:
Organized by Sandro Rumney and Art of This Century, in collaboration with Nicolas Hélion.

Catalogue:
No catalogue.