i'm here at home on a saturday night recuperating from a solo voyage to turin and cinque terre. whilst in turin i stumbled upon one of my most favorite things that is oh-so-common on this (current) continent of mine: outdoor public art like this ->
but my most prized discovery was the work of a certain jenny holzer that was projected, LED-style, on an old italian castle...expressions such as "it is fun to walk carelessly in a death zone" and "bodies lie in the bright grass some are murdered some are picnicking" caught me by surprise. i was left stunned by holzer's clever semantics and the city's willingness to display such disturbing+shocking statements on such a central, historic spot. holzer uses "language and the mechanics of late 20th-century communications as an assault on established notions of where art should be shown, with what intention and for whom" (artnet.com). i think you might enjoy her work as much as i did, although the pix don't really capture the moment:
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