“The best place for displaying art is where nobody expects it. I want people to know that whoever directs a message to them, whether ad man or artist, they need to look out for the content,” says Jenny Holzer in the latest issue of Wysokie Obcasy, the Saturday insert to Gazeta Wyborcza.

“Jenny Holzer – one of the most brilliant American artists, has turned the word into the basic means of artistic creation and the substance of light installations. She has wrapped the interiors and walls of important buildings across the globe in beams of light and words. Since the late 1990s she has been creating gigantic projections using lamps – she displays texts on mountain slopes, rivers, dunes, and oceans,” reads the article, entitled Jenny declares war.
It is worth remembering that in June, as part of the celebrations of the Year of Czesław Miłosz, Jenny Holzer created the installation For Krakow. Fragments of poems by the Nobel Prize winner were displayed on the surface of the Vistula River and the façade of Wawel Royal Castle.

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For Krakow instalation is a part of Liberated Miłosz – Czesław Miłosz Year celebration in Kraków, which is operated by Instytut Książki. Projcet subsidised with funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.