Jenny Holzer is born On July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio, The United States. She is an educated person with a solid intellectual formation, besides an artist of fundamental reference in the context of the contemporary art.She was formed in Lancaster´s high school, Ohio and she graduated in the Pine Crest Preparatory School of Florida. In 1968 she registered in Duke´s University in the program of Free Arts and, later, in 1972, in the University of Chicago. She completed studies in fine arts in the University of Ohio and in 1975 she realices a Master of fine arts in Rohode Island School of Design.

She started by being an abstract painter and following the steps of Morris Louis and Mark Rothko, she did her last incursion in the painting in 75 with an installation in which she paints all her study of blue. In 1977 she moves to New York to take part in the Program of Studies Independent from the Whitney Museum.And is in this moment when she gives I begin the series "Truisms" in which the text constitutes its artistic fundamental material and it is, precisely, this series the one that intervenes in the installation proposed for our city.

We can define Holzer as a sender of messages in which the questions and answers appear, own, of the spectator-reader. Her work develops in series of works grouped under a common title that reflects and synthesizes the analyzed problematics. Besides "Truisms" of 1977 to 79 we emphasize, in her  production,other series of interest as "Inflamatory Essays" of 1979 to 82, "Living" of 1980 through 82, "Survival" of 1983 to 85, "Under to Rock" of 1985 to 87, "Laments" from 1987 to 1989 and "Lustmord" from 1993 to 1994. This artist wanted, from the beginning, to go out with work to the street: To this space that is more of the public that of the Art and, with an alone phrase or across an extensive column of them, she exposes, habitually, a fan of opinions that demonstrate the diversity and the contradiction of our modern society. .

Jenny Holzer is one of the current artists with more international projection. She has exhibited from finals of the 70, so many of individual form like collectivly, in different places of the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. We will mention of more significant form the exhibitions in which she has represented to her country: Documenta VIII of Kassel (Germany) in 1982, in the Biennial XLIV of Venice (Italy) in 1990 that are two of the most important artistic events of Europe. Her individual exhibitions in 1989 in the Museum Salomón R. Guggenheim and Day Art Fundation and, in 1994 in Gallery Barbara Gladstone, the three in New York. Among the collective exhibitions we will mention specially the realized ones in the National Museum of Modern Art in the Center Georges Pompidou of Paris in 1987, that of the Museum Whitney in 1994 and those of the Museum of Modern Art in 1990 and 1997, both in New York and realized ones in our country in 1986 and 1998 in the Cultural Center of the Foundation La Caixa in Barcelona.

Among the permanent exhibitions that she has realized for the most important museums of the world, we will enphasize the one that we can see, also in our country, from 1997 in the Museum Guggengeim of Bilbao.

For the central walk of the Island of Sculptures in the Xunqueira, Holzer has projected an installation of eight banks of grey granite in which there can be read 96 phrases that belong to the series "Truisms". This term comes from the English word "True" that comes mean something similar to essential truths. The texts translated into the Spanish for express desire of the artist, are arranged by alphabetical order in a whole of twelve phrases by every bank.

The surfaces of seat are perforated with a typography in capital letters that it resembles the Roman Capital. The columns of daily aphorisms, shorts in extension though intense of meaning, they do not have as aim expose an idea but interrogate the walker.

The pieces of stone that integrate the set define a line of two hundred meters that

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