Ann Veronica Janssens 

"defined as an exploratory journey into the sensory experience of reality."- Galerie Micheline Szwajcer


Ann Veronica Janssens is a french artist who began working in the mid-80's, a lot of her work has to do with light infiltrating matter.

  Blue, Red and Yellow, 2001 are mist chambers in light rooms. The idea is that when all obstacles are abolished, the viewer is left to question materialism. The installation gives a sensual experience where people become locked in "colored matter." The installation was created by covering the gallery walls in different colored film and letting the room fill with mist; the viewer would then have a different experience depending on his location in relation to the proximity of each color.


Another way she uses light is by having it mimic the infiltrate of liquid. Her sculpture work is mostly composed of aquarium's of different color. Experimenting with the density of liquids and colored oils, creating an elusion that color is floating at the surface.



http://vimeo.com/68697406

Scarlett, 2010

Untitled(orange), 2010

An artist similar to her is Carlos Cruz-Diez. He is a Venezuelan kinetic artist living in Paris. I have seen his Chromosaturation rooms and they are stimulating and will make you go crazy. Carlos Cruz-Diez uses space by filling each room with a different color to infiltrate and distort the senses.

http://www.cruz-diez.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Cruz-Diez

I was introduced to a lot of this type of work when I visited the DYNAMO exhibition in the Grand Palais. So check out all the links if you want to see more.

http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/article/dynamo-teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1TGXmx_i5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QlFfGwb51g






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Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic  was born in Serbia on November 30th, 1946, she is currently 67 years old.

Abramovic is a performance artist who began her work in the 1970s. Abramovic's parents were both part of the military and she was raised in a very strict house hold. Abramovic attributes her body studies to her parents military pasts. Marina uses her body for her pieces to test the bodies limits and the minds endurance but also so to explore the relationship between the audience and the performer. Ulay, a performance artist collaborated with Abramovic for some performance pieces in which they explored the ego and artistic identity.

i chose to post about Abrovamic because i feel like i can really relate to her work because both of our works have to do with manipulating the body. i really like how she is not afraid to hurt herself or push her body to the limit. and i also like the way she documented her pieces.

related artists:

• Uwe laysiepen
• Vito Acconci
• Bruce Nauman
• Chris Burden 
• Yoko Ono

http://www.marinaabramovicinstitute.org/mission/the-abramovic-method
http://marinafilm.com/
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965

 

                              - xoxo pilar