Book Signing & Artists’ Talk
Åsa Jungnelius & Märta Thisner
Mussels, Duo Show
Spazio Nobile Gallery & Studiolo
Rue Franz Merjay 142 & 169, B-1050 Brussels
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Book Signing @Spazio Nobile
Saturday, September 14, 15-19.00
in the framework of Rendez-Vous – Brussels Art Week
& Brussels Design September Art+Design
Null & Void Books presents: Mussels
By photographer Märta Thisner
In the Shell with Åsa Jungnelius
Poem by Tone Schunnesson
Graphic Design by Jonas Williamsson
Format: 17 x 23 cm. 320 pages
Offset printing: Narayana Press
In the presence of the artist, the photographer and the publisher Null & Void Books
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Uptown Rendez-vous Sunday Brunch
Sunday, September 15, 12-18.00
Artists’ Talk at 15.00 @Spazio Nobile
Åsa Jungnelius & Märta Thisner, Moderated by Lise Coirier
Introduced by Tone Schunnesson’s Poem : “In the Shell with Åsa Jungnelius”
Märta Thisner is one of Sweden’s most prominent photographers. Image-search her name and you’ll find a cross-section of recent cultural figures from the worlds of dance, music and literature. Her portraits have an immediate readability, a refined contrast between a careful gaze and the brutal contours of her flash, which seems equally suited to rock and poetry as it does to still-lifes with glass sculptures.
This is how she first came into contact with Åsa Jungnelius — at a photo shoot for the Public Luxury exhibition at ArkDes in 2018. Jungnelius is one of the most respected designers and artists in the country, constantly renegotiating the relationship between the two forms. Although glass is her primary element, Jungnelius’ work is to be considered contemporary art, with its integral parts of social commentary and criticism. Mussels is a portrait of Jungnelius in her natural habitat 2018–2024. Thisner is present as the seeds are being sown in the studio and when they’re harvested in the garden in Månsamåla or at the glass- works in Kosta.
The exhibition runs until November 17, 2024
In the photographs: a not-quite-feral cat, a thinned forest, a unique sculpture with an inner universe. The living encounter the withered, the everyday is visited by the sublime and braided together with ropes of many colors. Openness prevails. The unpaginated pages might seem random or like fragments of memory.
Download Spazio Nobile Catalogue, “Mussels” here
All photographs by Märta Thisner – Exhibition Views by Barbara De Vuyst
Close your eyes and they are still there. What do we remember? What lingers is reformulated over time and assembled in new sequences. In an infinity, relative to life.
