Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

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Performing Arts Center Welcomes RNC with Truisms and Survival, a (construction) site-specific installation by Jenny Holzer
July 20, 2000

A woman of many words whose work is among the most recognizable in contemporary art, Jenny Holzer brings her brilliantly mixed messages to Philadelphia’s own "masterpiece in progress:" the newly named Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Running continuously during the Republican National Convention, specially selected excerpts from Holzer’s Truisms and Survival series will be writ large on the construction site of the Kimmel Center, thanks to a six-by-twenty-foot screen facing north on the corner of Broad and Spruce Streets. The screen will be switched-on at a reception in honor of the artist on Thursday, July 27 at 5:00pm, at The Doubletree Hotel. Located at Broad and Locust Streets, directly across from the Kimmel Center on the Avenue of the Arts, The Doubletree Hotel offers spectacular vantage points of Holzer’s installation, selections from Truisms and Survival, as well as for witnessing the rapidly advancing work on the soaring glass vault designed by Rafael Viñoly to shelter and showcase the Center’s concert hall and recital theater. "With the Kimmel Center as its anchor, the Avenue of the Arts provides Philadelphians with a true ‘cultural crossroads’--one that celebrates both the region's rich artistic heritage and the world’s most treasured creative voices," notes Stephanie Naidoff, the Center’s president. "How fitting then, that we now have 'art at the crossroads,' in the playfully provocative and dramatic substance and style of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms and Survival." Sponsored by Philly.com, the region's homepage Screen supplied by Video WallTronics, Inc.

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