About

Vistamare and Vistamarestudio are pleased to present The Presence of Absence, a single exhibition straddling two venues, Pescara and Milan, in tribute to the Belgian artist Jan Vercruysse, who passed away last year.
The investigation of Jan Vercuysse was focused on the spiritual nature of art and on the idea that art acquires a value entirely detached from that of reality, finding its raison d’être in a deliberate “artificiality”.
As a student he wrote poems, and start to consider the artworks as words in a discourse, capable of generating a form of visual poetry. He worked in “cycles”, the …