Jenny Holzer’s fourth and final night of Rome illuminations took place at Castel Sant’Angelo. Built in the second century AD to be the mausoleum of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, the monument which towers over the Tiber River later became a Papal fortress. Holzer’s texts - in both English and Italian - scrolled across the river and up the Tiber embankments before disappearing into the Roman sky. Romans and tourists strolled across the ancient Ponte Sant’Angelo between an honor guard of angels carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini as they admired the textual apparition.
Jenny Holzer: “I show what I can with words in light and motion in a chosen place, and when I envelop the time needed, the space around, the noise, smells, the people looking at one another and everything before them, I have given what I know.”
For more photos of the Holzer projections see the Rome With A View photo blog.
