
Bortolami is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition with Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François. Former partners and collaborators, their new and recent works create a poetic exchange between the two artists. François presents objects and their implicit origins: a constructed corner, copied and reimagined from a courtyard in India; a soccer ball assembled from a leather jacket; worn sandals cast in bronze. Interspersed, Janssens places smooth, translucent glass rolls and brilliant white glitter scattered across the floor, iridescently. Their assemblage creates a tableau that is both aerial and terrestrial.
The sound of the araponga, or three-wattled bellbird, is curious and metallic. Its cry recalls a shared memory for Janssens and François, during a visit to Sao Paolo for the biennial in 1994. Five years later, they would represent Belgium in the Venice Biennale in 1999, and would show together again in a two-person exhibition at Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in 2015.
Works


Luminaire, 2019

One Another (football), 2019

Trousers, 1991

Materialization of tongues, 2018

Parpaing (concrete block and tabacco), 2019

Blue Glass Roll 405, 2017-2018

Candy Sculpture 805/2-600-805/2, 2018

The Skeis…, 2019

Hazy Glass Roll, 2019
