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Jenny Holzer Projections for FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life

Posted in Programs and Events on June 10 2015, by Plant Talk

Jenny HolzerPremiering tonight, Wednesday, June 10, an incredible live presentation by internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer will take place at the Garden—and we hope you’ll join us for the opportunity to experience it! For four consecutive nights during our Frida al Fresco evenings, Jenny Holzer in conjunction with The Poetry Society of America and The New York Botanical Garden will present a program of scrolling light projections on the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.

For more than 30 years Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions. Her medium is always writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of the work. Reflecting Kahlo’s intense relationship with her culture and the natural world, Holzer’s hour-long presentation will include poems by Mexico’s Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, verses from contemporary Mexican female poets, and even a selection of powerful passages from Frida Kahlo’s own diary.

Jenny Holzer

Tickets are still available, so come and witness the waves of poetry that will sweep over the Conservatory building from dusk until 10 p.m. and envelop the glass walls housing the heart of the Garden’s FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life exhibition.

Live music, delicious Mexican fare from La Casa Azul Taco Truck, and cool cocktails from La Cantina round out a fun evening in the Garden with friends!

Credit, image 1: © 2015 Jenny Holzer, courtesy of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Text: “The Religious Fig,” by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, from The Collected Poems 1957–1987, copyright © 1986 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Credit, image 2: © 2015 Jenny Holzer, courtesy of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Text: from “Epitaph for No Stone” by Octavio Paz, translation by Eliot Weinberger, from The Collected Poems 1957–1987, copyright © 1986 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Excerpt from the Diary of Frida Kahlo 2015 Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust. Av. 5 de Mayo No. 2, Col. Centro, Del. Cuauhtémoc 06059, México, D. F. Used by permission 2015 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Lili Holzer-Glier.