Jenny Holzer - Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One London Thursday, June 6, 2019 | Phillips

Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019

  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, pp. 160-161

  • Artist Biography

    Jenny Holzer

    American • 1950

    Jenny Holzer is a Conceptual artist best known for her text-based public art projects. Holzer's work speaks of violence, oppression, sexuality, feminism, power, war and death. Throughout the years, Holzer has employed a variety of media, from a T-shirt to a plaque to an LED sign. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, she uses her art as a form of communication and commentary. Holzer's art hangs in important collections around the globe including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

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Jenny Holzer

Amber Truisms Living

2008
Semicircular electronic LED sign with amber Osram diodes and electro-polished aluminium housing with seamless light filter.
4.8 x 53 x 27.6 cm (1 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Signed in black ink and numbered 14/25 (printed) on a label affixed to the reverse (there were also 5 artist's proofs), published by Schellmann Sprüth Magers Art Production, Berlin.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £20,000

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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019