Verhoeven Twins Moments of Happiness Installation

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2019
Borosilicate, Glass, Iridescend Oil, 24 Karat gold Fixing Part

Part of the exhibition Dysfunctional, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice, Italy, 2019.

The art installation is a mystical constellation of feather-light and supple impressions of bubbles, whose iridescent surfaces reflect and refract light around the room. The artists incorporated gold into their work for the first time to echo Piaget’s savoir-faire in gold craftsmanship.

Bubbles appear throughout art history as an image of transience, most famously in Chardin’s Soap Bubbles (c. 1733-34), which depicts a boy blowing a bubble while another watches. The Verhoeven Twins have thus created a unique cultural artefact by transforming a symbolic image of brevity into an enduring object. In this sense, the work closely mirrors Venice itself, appearing so Fragile, yet possessing a steadfastness that exceeds expectations.

Artist Biography

Joep and Jeroen Verhoeven (both born in 1976) live and work in Amsterdam. Known collectively as the Verhoeven Twins, their practice combines the fantastic with the practical: function and form transformed into mystical narratives, where the feather-light impressions of dreams become objects to see, touch, and use in everyday life.