Public Artwork

Five Billboards for Banff

Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
Location:
Downtown, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada
Alternate title: 
Those Who Know Will Say Least; Qui en a Connaissance se taira, etc.
Artwork creator(s): 
Gerz, Jochen
Text author(s): 
Gerz, Jochen
Installation year: 
1984
Remarks on location: 
Posters were placed on the façades of buildings along the main street in Banff, Alberta.
Description: 

The posters show 5 upside down images of landscapes of the subboreal forest, accompanied by the following text in English, French, Hebrew, Russian and German: "Those who know will say least" (Hapkemeyer, Andreas et al. Jochen Gerz, Res Publica. The Public Works 1968-1999, Ostfildern-Ruit (Germany): Hatje Cantz, 1999).

Text of the artwork: 

QUI EN A CONNAISSANCE SE TAIRA


TE KTO ЭHAET CKAЖYT MEHЬШE BCEΓO


DIE DAVON WISSEN WERDEN SCHWEIGEN



THOSE WHO KNOW WILL SAY LEAST

History: 
Intervention in public space
Event: Jochen Gerz: 5 billboards for Banff, organized by the Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Center
July 12-27, 1984



Event date(s): 
1984

Dimensions:

Height: 
1.2m
Width: 
2.1m
Document(s): 

Billboard. Art on the Road. A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists' Billboard of the Last 30 Years

Heon, Laura Stewart, Peggy Diggs, Dorin Lisa (1999).  Billboard. Art on the Road. A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists' Billboard of the Last 30 Years. Cambridge : MIT Press; North Adams, p. 106

Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff

Walter_Phillips_Gallery (1984).  Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery, p. 4

Jochen Gerz, Res Publica. The Public Works 1968-1999

Hapkemeyer, Andreas, Marion Hohlfeldt, Helga Pakasaar (1999).  Jochen Gerz, Res Publica. The Public Works 1968-1999. Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, p. 148