Hans Theys

Hans Theys is a twentieth-century philosopher and art historian. He has written and designed dozens of books on the works of contemporary artists and published hundreds of essays, interviews and reviews in books, catalogues and magazines. All his publications are based on actual collaborations and conversations with artists.

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Ann Veronica Janssens

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Untitled, 2002

Ann Veronica Janssens

Installation , Dimensions variable

2000-watt follow spot, artificial mist

During the 1990s. Janssens developed her installations that utilise lights and fog in parallel to the development and use of similar equipment in rave and club culture, to similar effect. Works such as Représentation d'un corps rond (Representation of a round body), 1996, or Untitled, 2002, use the potent combination of light and fog as a sculptural means, creating the visual sensation of three-dimensional apparitions, as well as spatial situations that are phenomenologically less determinable. In Janssens’ installations, the possibilities of new mental landscapes emerge using the colours and shapes that are formed in the mind.

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