"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"WISH LIST BLACK," detail (2006)
"WISH LIST BLACK," detail, 2006
Oil on linen; 16 panels, 33 x 408 inches.
© 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Oil on linen; 16 panels, 33 x 408 inches.
© 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
"My contribution is finding the text and figuring out what color should go with what. We looked at the colors in Goya’s black paintings, and we went to the ochres and deep browns and black, cadging what we could from Goya reproductions and then trying to have it make sense for these documents."
- Jenny Holzer
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