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Five Billboards for Banff

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Five Billboards for Banff [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Walter Phillips Gallery (1984). Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery [2]
image/jpeg iconSource: Walter Phillips Gallery (1984). Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery [3]
image/jpeg iconSource: Walter Phillips Gallery (1984). Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery [4]
image/jpeg iconSource: Walter Phillips Gallery (1984). Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery [5]
image/jpeg iconSource: Walter Phillips Gallery (1984). Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery [6]
image/jpeg iconSource: Walter Phillips Gallery (1984). Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery [7]
Location:
Downtown, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada

Artwork identification

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
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Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff
Walter_Phillips_Gallery (1984).  Jochen Gerz : 5 Billboards for Banff. Banff : Walter Phillips Gallery, p. 4
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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
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/five-billboards-for-banff
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/5 billboards for banff allemand.jpg
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/5 billboards for banff anglais.jpg
[4] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/5 billboards for banff russe.jpg
[5] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/5 billlboards for banff francais.jpg
[6] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/5 billlboards for banff hebreu.jpg
[7] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/5 billboards for banff vue d installation.jpg
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[9] http://plepuc.org/en/print/1474
[10] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/five-billboards-for-banff