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Magic Mirror Steel Blue
2022
Ann Veronica Janssens
Sculpture
200 x 100 x 1,4 cm
Dichroic laminated glass composed of broken glass, float glass and gelatin filters
Magic Mirror Steel Blue consists of three sheets of Securit glass. The central sheet held in a vice is shattered by a sharp, precise blow into a multitude of small fragments whose propagation from top to bottom is visible. The “magic” source of the colour is a very thin transparent membrane known as a “dichroic” which makes the whole surface produce all the colours of the spectrum, especially blue, depending on the combination of light and the moving eye.
Liberated from hierarchical composition, the eye gets lost in the mystery of the work, its subtle layers of colour in space. With their image reflected back to them, visitors are confronted with a real threshold between the simplicity of the form and the complexity of the experience.
Sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens began herc areer in the early 1980s. She describes her works as “spatial extensions of existing architecture” or “super-spaces”. Inspired by cognitive sciences, movements such as kinetics, arte povera, and Light & Space, Ann Veronica Janssens sees perception as a medium in its own right.
The creations of Ann Veronica Janssens reject traditional media. They draw the eye to the full as well as the empty, often very thinly punctuating colour and space. The absence of frames or pedestals encourages the viewer to break free from passive contemplation, wander, and explore.
Artwork of
Ann Veronica JANSSENS
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