Jenny Holzer. War Paintings

In cooperation with the Written Art Foundation of Frankfurt, Germany, the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by the American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer.

A collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale, the Correr show will open on May 6, 2015 and remain on view through November 22, 2015. The works on exhibit at Museo Correr have been selected from a decade of the artist’s war paintings, a significant departure from the LED installations for which Holzer is best known. Curated by Dr. Thomas Kellein, a special catalogue will be published in collaboration with the artist.

The exhibition takes as its starting point declassified and other sensitive U.S. government documents concerning the global War on Terror that followed the events of September 11, 2001, as well as the United States military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Holzer’s paintings are drawn from memoranda, planning maps, diplomatic communiqués, interrogation records, autopsy reports, and the handwritten cride coeur of detainees themselves – which prior to release to the public, the censor heavily redacted.

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