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Group exhibition with sculptures beyond the conventional at Galerie Michael Janssen

BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen is presenting …there is a crack in everything, a group exhibition with sculptures and objects by artists whose practices refer to, expand or go beyond the conventional notion of sculpture and its parameters. On view are works by Vanessa Billy, Valentin Carron, Liz Larner, Dan Peterman and Joris Van de Moortel. Viewers customarily use volume, density and mass to make their initial judgments about what an object or sculpture might be and where it is situated; both in a space and in terms of their relationship to it. The works on display in the exhibition cut against these expectations and are hard to read at first glance. Unexpected color and material destabilize our sense of volume. Some of the works are spectacular and raucous, directly involving visitors while others are characterized more by quietness and conceptual acuity. In one way or another though they all are concerned wi