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June 10, 2009
Elizabeth Smith Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT Exh. cat. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz in association with Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008. 128 pp.; 94 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9783775723015)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 25, 2008–February 1, 2009; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 12–May 31, 2009; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, November 1, 2009–January 24, 2010

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.57

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Jenny Holzer. For Chicago (2008). Eleven electronic LED signs with amber diodes. 2 3/8 x 334 7/8 x 576 in. (6 x 850.6 x 1463 cm). Installation view: Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, 2008. © 2009 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Attilio Maranzano. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, commissioned through the generosity of the Edlis/Neeson Art Acquisition Fund.

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The exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT demonstrates a renewed validity for the artist’s LED signs, which have long been considered canonical to both contemporary art and feminist discourses. Having made these electronic installations for more than twenty-five years, Holzer seemingly predicted the appearance of the ubiquitous ticker that now streams constantly at the base of television and computer screens. She recognized early on that electronic technology was a crucial site of viewing. The means of...