Nancy Holt #Photographe
Nancy Holt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1938, and now lives in Galisteo, New Mexico. She is the recipient of five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two New York Creative Artist Fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Holt's work has been presented at a number of international institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Tate Modern in London.
Actualité The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition Exposition Sightlines - Nancy Holt Modifier l'image
The show consists of over 136 artists from fifty-three countries, and will feature a space for live programming in the Central Pavilion designed by David Adjaye called The Arena. “The linchpin of this program will be the epic live reading of all three volumes of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital,” Enwezor states. “Here, Das Kapital will serve as a kind of Oratorio that will be continuously read live, throughout the exhibition’s seven months’ duration.”
The 56th International Art Exhibition will form a unitary itinerary that starts at the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and continues at the Arsenale, with over 136 artists from 53 countries, of whom 89 will be showing here for the first time.
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Nancy Holt in Europe! Since the late 1960s, Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including Land art, films, photography, sculpture, site-specific installations, artist's books, and concrete poetry. Curated by Alena J. Williams, this thematic exhibition offers an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media.
Sightlines showcases Holt's transformation of the perception of the landscape through the use of different observational modes in her early films, videos, and related works from 1966 to 1980. Encompassing more than 40 works, as well as photographic and archival materials that have only recently become available, the exhibition illuminates Holt's circumvention of modernist scul...