Maarten Janssen

In a museum, paintings are hung like sacred objects. Only art historians and others who are initiated are able to determine the history of their development from “secret” information. From the outset, Maarten Janssen revokes this aura of the complete. It is his aim to make processes of development and traces of construction visible in the work itself. Production and chance thus become the subject of Janssen’s work. In this way, visitors who take time for a little detective work while viewing the pictures can follow their artistic structures back to the origins.