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february 28, 2023 - Hangar Bicocca
Ann Veronica Janssens Grand Bal April 6-July 30, 2023 / Opening April 5, 2023
Pirelli #hangarbicocca presents a retrospective of the work of Belgian artist #annveronicajanssens, one of the world’s foremost artists. Throughout her 40-year career, Janssens has continued to experiment with light, her primary material. She has investigated the sensory and performative nature of space and architecture, creating works that are mutable and ephemeral.
Emerging from her research, the artist's interventions are set on the border between art and
science, and investigate the limits of human perception and psyche, as well as the aleatory
connotations of natural phenomena, down to their minimum scale.
"Grand Bal" is conceived as an extended choreography that situates environmental installations alongside more intimate works, tracing a visual, aural and tactile path that invites visitors to move between the incorporeal, the tangible and between surreal atmospheres and the socio-political and cultural signs of our present time.
Since the late 1970s, #annveronicajanssens (Folkestone, UK, 1956; lives and works in Brussels) has developed her research around light and its relationship to what surrounds it, often creating site-specific works that challenge the immutable nature of sculpture and installation. Frequently associated with the work of "Light & Space"—the 1960s group of American artists that included,
among others, Robert Irwin and James Turrell—Janssens has built her practice on overcoming the
art object through its dematerialization and deconstruction. Through minimal forms and gestures that have an anti-monumental quality, Janssens is actually able to change the public's perception of space. With their use of light, color, mirrors, air or artificial fog, the works of Janssens call for the
direct participation of viewers, inviting them to experience reality differently, to develop an awareness of their senses, of the architecture and spatial-temporal categories by which we define it, emphasizing its sociopolitical and cultural aspects. Often based on experiments carried out in
collaboration with scientists, the artist's works become labs for testing the boundaries between properties and physical-material elements that are regarded as opposites, such as light and darkness, sound and silence, emptiness and presence, the tangible and the incorporeal.
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