Over the past three decades, Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens (born 1956) has become best known as a light artist, working with spotlights, projections, fog, and other materials to create experiences heightening viewers’ perceptions of themselves and their surroundings. Janssens’s work exhibits formal affinities with minimalism and the California Light and Space movements of the 1960s and 70s, yet eschews their penchant for monumentality in favor of the intimate, subjective experience of the individual. Published on the occasion of her exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Ann Veronica Janssens documents the series of sculptural proposals exploring the effects of light and perception that she made specifically for the light-filled galleries of the Nasher, including projected light works, several cocktail sculpture of translucent and reflective liquids, a 20-foot-long stainless steel I-beam with its top polished to a mirrored shine, and a 5,400 cubic foot pavilion filled with artificial fog that surrounds visitors in tangible, colored light. Lavishly illustrated, with an essay by Nasher Curator Catherine Craft that puts Janssens installation at the Nasher in the context of her distinguished career, Ann Veronica Janssens offers an enlightening, tactile look at work that redefines the notion of sculpture.
Details
9.5 x 8 x 0.38 in.
109 pages 49 color and 4 b/w illustrations
Cover: Printed on matte textured paper with iridescent foil deboss
ISBN: 978-0-9912338-2-3
