Minimalist with a lot on their mind: Pierre Huyghe and Jenny Holzer

There seems to be a connection between Jenny Holzer and Pierre Hughe's work. I would describe both of their work as minimal, but full of a questionable concept. In one of Pierre Hughe work a truism is projected on a wall and revolving doors circle in front of it while opening and closing. For the viewer, the concept would seem abstract and one could assume multiple meanings. He described that the revolving opening and closing doors created an environment where there was no inside or outside in a sense of no bounderies. This concept makes the work powerful by simulating a thought that to many is unreal, we all have our bounderies. His work relies heavily on the emotional landscape and less on the narrative. In this way the viewer becomes the artist as well by creating their own reality. He said his exhibition is never the end, its more of a starting point to go somewhere else. Thats how I perceive his work. Since there is little narrative my mind makes something of what I see and maybe a lot of it is led on by confusion.

Jenny Holzer, from my standpoint, is minimal in landscape but has a strong emotional impact on few words. Her truism's although entertaining at times seem to lack a visual prescence although they are usually done in large scale. She's the artist that I have chosen to do my own work based off of because I feel as though adding a visual along with strong words could be even more powerful. I did love one of the works she did in scrolling text on the ceiling in a glass building and how the text reflected off the windows. I think the art of her technology is interesting but I believe it should be taking to the next level of being visually pleasing. She uses the same font and same white color on most of her work. I wonder what the effect would be if these two components were to change. Maybe even the use of a different medium or combination of words an images done in the same projection matter. All in all her minimal style and thought provoking truisms have inspired to put my own twist to her work.