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ANN VERONICA JANSSENS
Grand Bal
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06/02/2023 - 30/07/2023: Humanistic/artistic cultural events Exhibitions
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Admission to the exhibitions is free and online reservation guarantees priority access in the selected time slot to Ann Veronica Janssens’ and Gian Maria Tosatti’s temporary exhibitions and to Anselm Kiefer’s permanent installation. Members have priority access even without reservation.
Since the late 1970s, Ann Veronica Janssens (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. 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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Time:
Lun-Mar-Merc: chiuso
Gio-Ven-Sab-Dom: 11.00-23.00
Where: Hangar Bicocca - Via Chiese 2,
20126 Milano |
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