Ann Veronica Janssens

Ann Veronica Janssens is a contemporary visual artist who works primarily in light. She was born in 1956 in Folkstone, England.[1] She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.[1]

Work

Janssens's installation piece of blue and yellow paraffin smoke, Daylight Blue, Skyblue Medium, Yellow (2011), was included in Dynamo: A Century of Light and Movement in Art, 1913-2013 at the Grand Palais in Paris.[2]

In 2013 she created colorful light installations for the Chapelle Saint-Vincent in Grignan, France.[3]

Exhibitions

In 1989 she participated in the Lyon Biennale.[4]

In 1999, she participated in the 48th Venice Biennale, representing the Belgium Pavilion, with the artist Michael François.[5]

In 2012 she participated in the 18th Biennale of Sydney. She also created an adaptation of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's "Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich" at the Tanks in the Tate Modern.[6]

In 2013 Janssens was featured in the Hayward Gallery's large group exhibition of light artists, Light Show, alongside James Turrell, Dan Flavin, Olafur Eliasson and Jenny Holzer.[7]

In 2014, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas is organizing a solo exhibition of the artist's work.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ann Veronica Janssens: Biography" Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  2. Quemmin, Alain "Monster Movement" The Art Newspaper, Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  3. Dugan, Phillipe."Ann Veronica Janssens plonge la chapelle du cimitiere de Grignan dans la coluleur" Le Monde, Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  4. Sutton, Benjamin. "History of Light: Heirs, from Olafur Eliasson to Ann Veronica Janssens" Art Info. Retrieved 17 February 2014
  5. Vogel, Carol "At the Venice Biennale, Art Is Turning Into an Interactive Sport" The New York Times, Retrieved 17 February 2014
  6. "What's On: Light Show" Retrieved 21 February 2014

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