Details
Jenny Holzer (b. 1950)
Arno
electronic LED sign with blue diodes
77 x 5 1/4 x 3 in. (195.5 x 13.3 x 7.6 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is number three from an edition of five.
Provenance
Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Alex Berggruen
Alex Berggruen

Lot Essay

Arno is titled after the river in Florence where the artist was commissioned to site-specific installation for the 1996 Biennale di Firenze: Il Tempo e la moda. For the installation, the artist created a light projection that illuminated the bank of the river with the phrases that race across the blue diodes of the present work. The same text appeared as a public art project on taxi hoods throughout the city. 

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