11.06.2025-01.31.2026
L'AVANTAGE DU TERRAIN
Jan Voss
The Sonia Zannettacci Gallery is pleased to present L’avantage du terrain, an exhibition of recent works by Jan Voss.
L’avantage du terrain is the position chosen by the artist, the place from which he has decided to speak to us; it is his freedom, freedom to choose his tools, the language he uses, the forms he selects and relates to one another.
The terrain is the canvas punctuated with painted forms on which lines, freed from their former horizontality, undulate, intersect, intertwine, and sometimes close in to form enclosures where unusual figures seem to be isolated, while elsewhere, like tightrope walkers capturing the viewer's imagination, silhouettes of objects, small characters, and animals wander along the lines.
The terrain is also the paper on which Jan Voss accumulates objects, juxtaposing pieces of cardboard or painted canvas, fragments of crates, wooden washers, string, and pipe sections. In contrast to the tranquility created by the fluidity of the lines he draws on his canvases, the vigor of his collages and assemblages evokes a kind of joy.
Image
Jan Voss
Conference, 2025
acrylic on canvas, 70 x 100 cm