Truisms (Toronto)
81.9 cms x 55.2 cms (32.25 ins x 21.75 ins)
made in 1982
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Pop Art Prints & International Graphics (4th session)" held on Thu, Oct 31, 2024.
Lot 321
Lot 321
Estimate: CAD $2,000 - $3,000
Realised: CAD $2,500
Realised: CAD $2,500
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Caviar20, Toronto
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Vancouver, 2019
Notes:
Please note: each work measures 32 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches.
The works produced as part of Jenny Holzer's "Truisms" series are some of her best-known and most celebrated. Beginning in 1977, while Holzer was still a student, she began writing collections of aphorisms, slogans, innocuous clichés and clever one-liners, producing lines of text that numbered in the hundreds. Listed in alphabetical order, these were printed on sheets of inexpensive paper and plastered on the buildings, walls, and public spaces around New York City, recalling the direct and universalizing—but ultimately disposable—messaging of advertising copy and billboards. In 1982, Holzer was invited by Toronto's A Space Gallery to stage one of these public interventions. Working with students at OCAD, these truisms were posted across the city. Rendered with clarity and humour, the compelling but ephemeral messaging of Holzer's one-liners become a subversive conflation of the personal and the political.
Caviar20, Toronto
Acquired from the above by the present Private Collection, Vancouver, 2019
Notes:
Please note: each work measures 32 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches.
The works produced as part of Jenny Holzer's "Truisms" series are some of her best-known and most celebrated. Beginning in 1977, while Holzer was still a student, she began writing collections of aphorisms, slogans, innocuous clichés and clever one-liners, producing lines of text that numbered in the hundreds. Listed in alphabetical order, these were printed on sheets of inexpensive paper and plastered on the buildings, walls, and public spaces around New York City, recalling the direct and universalizing—but ultimately disposable—messaging of advertising copy and billboards. In 1982, Holzer was invited by Toronto's A Space Gallery to stage one of these public interventions. Working with students at OCAD, these truisms were posted across the city. Rendered with clarity and humour, the compelling but ephemeral messaging of Holzer's one-liners become a subversive conflation of the personal and the political.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
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