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Ann Veronica Janssens: Exhibiton View, 2015
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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ANN VERONICA JANSSENS
6/3/2015-18/4/2015
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Ann Veronica Janssens’ fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Posted 11 March 2015
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The exhibition will include new glass and mirror works, two works from her series of
aquariums with brightly colored insets, and a glitter-based works.
Janssens’ work foregrounds the body’s perception of the world and itself in it. She often uses light, natural optical phenomena or glass as medium. Beautifully made, her works exude the impression of great simplicity yet create vivid experiences of the act of seeing, evoking a heightened awareness of the changeability and fleetingness of individual perceptions.
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Ann Veronica Janssens: Untitled (Gaufrette), 2015; Glass, 200 x 99,7 x 1,2 cm, Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof #1/1, (AVJ 087)
Middle:
Ann Veronica Janssens: Untitled, 2015, Glass bar, 12 x 180 x 12 cm, Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof #1/1, (AVJ 092)
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Ann Veronica Janssens: Untitled (blue glitter), 2015; Glitter, Protokol, Variable
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist´s proofs
(AVJ 094)
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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Ann Veronica Janssens: Magic Mirrors (Green & Pink#2), 2015; Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass, 200 x 120 x 1,8 cm each, 2 parts
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof, (AVJ 088)
Front:
Ann Veronica Janssens: Untitled, 2013, Glass bar, 12 x 190 x 12 cm
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof. (AVJ 091)
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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Her practice is characterized by its openness and changeability. Accordingly, the group of new sculptures draws on the optical effects of reflection and refraction to produce constantly changing impressions. As viewers move around the objects with suspended liquids, and as light passes through these small, contained spaces, unexpected views are reflected and their surfaces appear to become momentarily brightly colored.
Analogously, the large vertical iridescent mirror works exist in infinite facets. One, Magic Mirror, consists of three layers of glass. Sandwiched between two intact panes, the central pane has been broken into a myriad of pieces. It is securely preserved in its fragile state, but as light hits the surface, each cracked seam reflects it at different angles, creating variant shapes and colors.
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Janssens has likened her work to “a plastic proposition… akin to a laboratory revealing its discoveries.” As a result, one might think of the artist as pioneering scientist from the Age of Enlightenment: deducing natural laws from her close observation of everyday phenomena. Yet Janssens’ works carry this inquisitiveness lightly. Their openness lets her approach appear an enchanted science. For the observer this may entail childlike wonder at the optical (or often physiological) effects created by the works. The unstableness and changeability questions the nature of what art is—a material articulation or the experience of its interaction with the world and oneself in it.
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Left:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Magic Mirror (Blue), 2012
Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass
200 x 100 x 1,8 cm
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 089)
Right:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Magic Mirrors (Green & Pink#2), 2015
Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass
200 x 120 x 1,8 cm each, 2 parts
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 088)
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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Left:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Magic Mirror (Blue), 2012
Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass
200 x 100 x 1,8 cm
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 089)
Right:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Magic Mirrors (Green & Pink#2), 2015
Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass
200 x 120 x 1,8 cm each, 2 parts
je 200 x 120 x 1,8 cm, zweiteilig
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 088)
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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Left:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Magic Mirror (Blue), 2012
Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass
200 x 100 x 1,8 cm
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 089)
Right:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Magic Mirrors (Green & Pink#2), 2015
Dichroic polyester film, securit glass, float glass
200 x 120 x 1,8 cm each, 2 parts
je 200 x 120 x 1,8 cm, zweiteilig
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 088)
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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Ann Veronica Janssens was born in 1956 in Folkstone, England. She studied at L'École de la Cambre in Brussels. The artist lives and works in Brussels.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Philaetchouri, with Michel François, Foundation d’Enterprise Hermès, Brussels (until April 30, 2015), Museo Capella San Severo, with Nord Project / Laurent Jacob, Naples (2014); Ann Veronica Janssens: Septembre, FRAC Corse, Corte (2013); Ulysses - Ellipse, Eglise Sainte-Honorat des Alyscamps, Arles (2013); Ann Veronica Janssens, Chapelle St. Vincent de Grignan, Grignan (2013); Ann Veronica Janssens, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster (2010); Serendipity, WIELS, Brussels (2009).
Recent group exhibitions include: Manifesta 10, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2014); Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014); Before The Horizon, Fundacio Juan Miro, Barcelona (2013); Museum to Scale 1/7, Fine Arts Museum, Brussels (2013), travelled to Kunsthalle Rotterdam, Rotterdam and Baker Museum, Naples (both 2014); Lumineux! Dynamique! Espace et vision dans l’art de nos jours à 1913, Grand Palais, Paris (2013) and The Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London (2012) travelled to Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (2014).
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Back:
Ann Veronica Janssens
21 Avril, 2014
Glass, engraved magnifying glass
160 x 75 x 1,2 cm
Edition of 1 plus 2 artist's proofs
(AVJ 090)
Front:
Ann Veronica Janssens
Untitled, 2013
Glass bar
12 x 190 x 12 cm
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist proof
(AVJ 091)
Exhibition view at Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2015
Courtesy: The artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
Photo: © Andrea Rossetti
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