I Sense Us In Anything 2, Het Glazen Huis, Belgium

Residency

During Mia Lerssi’s residence at the Glazen Huis Lommel in Belgium, in conjunction with Gerrit Rietveld Academie’ 50th anniversary in the autumn of 2019, Mia created 3 new works.

Displayed side by side with work from the past, the work creates new constellations on material sensuality and material culture.

” I find that the naked radiance of the displayed elements reflects humankind’s need for sensuality. And it is my assertion that materials are used as substitutes and manifestation for immaterial needs. I see longings and emotions that are placed into commodities. I look upon things, as they want to seduce me. ”

Mia Lerssi, Great Danes, THE SECOND OF MAY, 2016.

Seduced by the visual and seductive qualities of glass, I collect and craft things that appeal to my instincts. Be it from crafts to mass produced objects. In this work I Sense Us In Anything 2 I have created a wave of abundant contemporary aesthetics from a material culture with a material sensuality brought into play as a weathered mirror of womankind. Recognizable shapes and undefinable objects lure the senses.
It is my humble wish that the viewer must be just as seduced as myself!

The glass department of Dutch Gerrit Rietveld Academy has existed for 50 years in 2019. All these years, this training has been an important progressive breeding ground for future glass artists, which has earned it great recognition internationally. The GlazenHuis is also celebrating this anniversary with the exhibition THE COLLECTION _50 years glass department Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

50 objects were selected from former Rietveld students and teachers from the Lommel glass art collection and donations from the private Embrechts & Ryckaert and Schrijvers collections. In addition, two in-situ installations were realized by guest artists Mia Lerssi (DK) and Joost Bicker Caarten (NL).

Curator: Glass house – Jeroen Maes

 

WAR-RIOR-DROBE. Art piece for the wall by Mia Lerssi.

 

WAR-RIOR-DROBE

Made, bought and found items, plastic, glass, wood, stone, love.

2019

 

 

No title

Wall piece

Necklace made with plastic disco balls.

2012

 

 

NEWMEN

Commercial store signs in plastic.

2011

 

I Sense You in Anything 2. Made during Mia Lerssi's residency at the Glazen huis in Lommel.

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

Art piece. Appropriation, assemblage, installation. I Sense you in Anything 2 by Mia Lerssi.

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

Art pice by Mia Lerssi. I sense you in anything 2. Appropriation, assemblage, installation.

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

Art piece by Mia Lerssi. Appropriation, assemblage, installation.

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

 

I Sense Us in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

 

I Sense You in Anything 2

Detail

Made, bought and found items. Plastic, glass, wood, textile, fur, stone, love.

2019

 

art piece for the wall in glass and leaf gold.

 

Would you mind them, would you mind me, would you mind us.

Glass, 24 karat leaf gold, 13 karat green leaf gold.

2010

Participating artists in the exhibition THE COLLECTION _50 years glass department Gerrit Rietveld Academy:

Joost Bicker Caarten (NL)
Simsa Cho (JP / NL)
Philippa Edwards (GB / NL)
Hanneke Fokkelman (NL / FR)
Bert Frijns (NL) Mieke Groot (NL)
Effie Halkidis (AU / NL)
Susan Hammond (GB / NL)
Takeshi Ito (JP / CZ)
Mia Lerssi (DK)
Katrin Maurer (AT / NL)
Richard Craig Meitner (US / NL)
Geir Nustad (NO / NL)
Mica Okuno (JP)
Richard Price (GB / NL)
Caroline Prisse (BE / NL)
Jenny Ritzenhoff (DE / NL)
Ryoko Sato (JP / BE)
Timothy Shaw (CY / AU)
Elizabeth Swinburne (GB)
Yvon Trossèl (NL)
Sybren Valkema (NL)
Fleur van den Berg (NL)
Vincent Van Ginneke (NL)
Gareth Noel Williams (GB / NL)