{"id":47647,"date":"2017-08-19T16:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/solange-janssens\/"},"modified":"2017-08-19T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T16:08:20","slug":"solange-janssens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/solange-janssens\/","title":{"rendered":"Solange Janssens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>\u00b01958<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-260 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/solange.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/solange.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/solange-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/solange-508x340.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Environmental creation \u201cHome\u201d (2001)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>5 x blue limestone &#8211; 1 x 1.50 m &#8211; 1 x 2.00 m &#8211; 3 x 2.20 m.<\/li>\n<li>Arrangement: 5\/5 m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cPatiently waiting for the voice that makes the bond\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">HOME, knowing oneself at one&#8217;s origin,<br \/>\nNot uprooted, nor displaced;<br \/>\nAcross all borders it must nonetheless<br \/>\nImply a general well-being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What of a voice in exile, a lost one?<br \/>\nWhat of the \u201cunheard\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I saw, felt and would hear many voids.<br \/>\nA voice, regardless of the position, language and sound<br \/>\nit expresses, cannot simply be any voice.<br \/>\nIt is just as much a bundle, of equal worth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Voice and hearing (with all gradations and nuances)<br \/>\nTuning them to each other is like finding a home (living together, being together)<br \/>\nmuch closer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dedicated to all the homeless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Solange Janssens<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Solange Janssens, born in Aarschot in 1958.  Studied sculpture at the RHDK in Brussels and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Anderlecht.<\/p>\n<p>Work in the possession of the National Bank of Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Solange Janssens is an artist of her own speech.<br \/>\nShe is doubly talented, for she writes poetry and carves sculptures.  In Solange Janssens, both art forms are intimately interwoven and as such inseparable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHome\u201d (Thuis) is a sculpture with a multi-part symbolic layering.<br \/>\nFirst there is the choice of the hard material, blue limestone, chosen for its stubbornness, durability and austerity.<br \/>\nAlso important is the fact that the basic sculptural elements &#8211; measure, volume, weight, form, working, space and place &#8211; are accentuated and are thus an important element in the visual and mental experience of the artwork.<br \/>\nFurthermore, the natural colour of the stone is interrupted by manually applied colour accents &#8211; yellow, green, blue, red and neutral grey &#8211; which, alternating, can be interpreted as aesthetic as well as mystically charged signs.<br \/>\nThe poetic carrying power of the sculptural environment is borne by the carved contribution on the side of each element of a number of word concepts: T&#8217;Horen, Uniek, Ik and Stem (Dutch for \u201cto hear\u201d, \u201cunique\u201d, \u201cI\u201d and \u201cvoice\u201d). Together their first letters form the new Dutch word \u201cThuis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that half of the world&#8217;s population currently leads an unwanted nomadic existence, the word \u201cThuis\u201d takes on a symbol-laden meaning that each of us can interpret in a personal way.<br \/>\nThe artist Solange thus succeeds in a highly original way, with her environmental creation \u201cThuis\u201d, in fusing word and image into a coherent whole and in actively involving the viewer in the interpretation of the artwork<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Octave Scheire, art historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-aarschot.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}