{"id":93029,"date":"2018-07-16T12:37:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=93029"},"modified":"2018-07-16T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:40:13","slug":"christian-jankowski-petzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said art about other art is boring? (Christian Jankowski at Petzel)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-93029 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/cj-18_xxx1l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CJ-18_xxx1L-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93041\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93041'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Verabschiedung (Contemporary Farewell), 2017. Sculpture, mixed media (polymer-plaster, metal, wood, sound equipment) sound, German; 114.17 x 110.24 x 45.28 inches 290 x 280 x 115 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/22cj-18_032l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22CJ-18_032L-480x398.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93043\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93043'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Rembrandt II, 2018. Oil on canvas 142.91 x 172.05 inches 363 x 437 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/cj-18_xxx3l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CJ-18_xxx3L-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93037\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93037'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Massage masters series, 2017. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/14cj-18_023l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/14CJ-18_023L-480x389.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93031\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93031'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Ensor, 2018. Oil on canvas 31.89 x 39.37 inches 81 x 100 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/cj-18_xxx12l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CJ-18_xxx12L-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93039\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93039'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, drawings from the series: Me in the Eyes of another Actor, 2017, drawing, coal, chalk and lead pencil on paper.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/23cj-18_031l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/23CJ-18_031L-294x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93042\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93042'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Pontormo, 2018. Oil on canvas 123.23 x 75.59 inches 313 x 192 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/cj-18_xxx6l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CJ-18_xxx6L-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93038\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93038'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Walking Logic series, 2017. Walking sticks, carved wood, dimensions variable (between 79 and 143 cm long) Black and white digital prints, each 29,7 x 21 cm Video, 11:54 min, color, sound, Slovac with English subtitles series of 114, each unique Dimensions variable.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/15cj-18_007l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/15CJ-18_007L-480x337.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93032\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93032'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Hockney, 2017. Oil on canvas 83.86 x 120.08 inches 213 x 305 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/19cj-18_017l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/19CJ-18_017L-480x352.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93034\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93034'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Van Gogh, 2017. Oil on canvas 32.09 x 45.08 inches 81.5 x 114.5 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/30cj-18_036l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/30CJ-18_036L-480x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93036\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93036'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Van Gogh, 2015. Oil on canvas.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/16cj-18_003l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/16CJ-18_003L-403x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93033\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93033'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Wood, 2017. Oil on canvas 30.71 x 25.59 inches 78 x 65 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/cj-18_xxx14l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CJ-18_xxx14L-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93040\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93040'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Rembrandt II, 2018. Oil on canvas 142.91 x 172.05 inches 363 x 437 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2018\/07\/16\/christian-jankowski-petzel\/29cj-18_033l\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/29CJ-18_033L-368x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-93035\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-93035'>\n\t\t\t\tChristian Jankowski, Neue Malerei &#8211; Richter I, 2018. Oil on canvas 78.74 x 51.18 inches 200 x 130 cm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A conceptual artist working in a variety of media, Christian Jankowski has made a history of collaborating with other people to create his artwork. Based in Berlin, the German artist first made his mark in the international art world with his 1992 video The Hunt, where he used a bow and arrow to hunt for his food in a supermarket\u2014shooting everything he needed for a week, from frozen chickens and vegetables to packages of toilet paper and butter.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, Jankowksi has made work in a casino and a psychotherapist\u2019s office, recreated porn films, collaborated with a fortune teller and an evangelical TV pastor, shot a film with wannabe actors at Cinecitt\u00e0, organized a panel talk with celebrated puppets to discuss \u201cPuppets in the Media,\u201d talked a Christie\u2019s auctioneer into selling the clothes off his own back and cast bronze sculptures from street performers mimicking famous statues.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to have his third solo outing at Petzel in January 2017, the show got bumped by an impromptu group exhibition in response to Trump becoming President. Although he was fresh off his curatorial gig with Manifesta 11, Jankowski was ready to present his latest work, but when the show got postponed until the summer of 2018 the artist decided to offer an overview of all of the works that he made in 2017\u2014and what a productive year it turned out to be.<\/p>\n<p>Jankowski\u2019s current Petzel exhibition, titled \u201c2017,\u201d features four new series of works in photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, along with a miniature cinema for viewing three recent videos. The series Massage Masters presents Japanese massage therapists applying their expertise on public sculptures in Yokohama through still photographs and video installations, which are viewed while you are resting on actual massage equipment. For his drawing series Me in the Eyes of Another Actor, Jankowski had pairs of sketch artists in Paris draw one another with either the head of the actress Isabelle Huppert or that of generic celebrities\u2014like George Clooney and Emma Watson\u2014from sample images that they show to flaunt their skills.<\/p>\n<p>Jankowski\u2019s installation Walking Logic offers folk art walking sticks, hand-carved by a 77-year-old artisan from Bratislava, supporting internet images of celebrities\u2014ranging from Rembrandt and Georgia O\u2019Keefe to Rihanna and Fred Astaire\u2014clasping walking sticks through the ages. It\u2019s Jankowski\u2019s series of paintings, however, that occupies the biggest amount of space and commands the most attention in the show. Starting photographs of people posing in tableau vivant recreations of famous paintings found on the world wide web, Jankowksi sends the pictures to a painting factory in China, where life-size imitations of the originals are made by professional painters that are skilled at simulating Western art masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p>An installation of 10 different reinterpretations of Vincent van Gogh self-portraits, from 2015, make up some of the earlier works from the Neue Malerei (New Painting) series, which Jankowski envisions as a walk through art history. In these works, and in all of the paintings in the series, an area of the canvas is left blank to show the proportional difference between the found photo and the original. Another simulated Van Gogh presents a contemporary version of The Potato Eaters that was created as a poster by Ikea\u2014complete with products that the mega-merchandiser sells\u2014to encourage families to dine together.<\/p>\n<p>The details in the works expose Jankowski\u2019s sense of humor. For example, in the reinterpretation of David Hockney\u2019s 1970 painting Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy, the tableau vivant performers didn\u2019t have a white cat like Percy, which sits on Mr. Clark\u2019s lap, so they had a friend don a white robe and socks to imitate it. Likewise, wanting to recreate Yves Klein\u2019s 1960 Anthropom\u00e9trie\u2014a performative painting, in which Klein directed a group of young women to transfer pigment to the canvas with their nude bodies\u2014a group of students in Austria shyly restage the performance dressed in dance leotards.<\/p>\n<p>Old Masters are not off bounds here, either. The painting of Rembrandt\u2019s The Night Watch in the show originated with a photograph from a tableau vivant festival in California that was reproduced in a New York Times article. The photograph captured the shadows of the players on the additional characters painted on a backdrop\u2014a feature the Chinese painter naively left in his rendition. And Jacopo Pontormo\u2019s 16th Century masterpiece The Deposition from the Cross is also made new again from an internet image depicting a similar, staged situation.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the sole sculpture in \u201c2017\u201d has a relationship to one of the videos on view in the mini-cinema. Jankowski made Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Verabschiedung (Contemporary Farewell)\u2014a sculptural installation of a stack of cast drum cases with sound equipment and a recording of a heartbeat and a speech\u2014for a ceremony honoring Leipzig\u2019s Museum f\u00fcr Zeitgen\u00f6ssiche Kunst director\u2019s retirement and the 10-minute video What Could Possibly Go Wrong for the inaugural exhibition of the director of MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked with Jankowski in the past, the new Broad director, Marc-Olivier Wahler, asked the artist to create something special for \u201cThe Transported Man,\u201d the first exhibition under his leadership. In the video, Wahler is called to the podium to make some remarks when Jankowski tells the audience that the director is cornered in the museum\u2019s Zaha Hadid building by an alligator. A television newsman and his cameraman follow Jankowski into the galleries to help, but the alligator attacks and swallows Wahler before they can intercede. The newsman proceeds to interview Wahler inside the belly of the beast\u2014with the director stating that art is about risk taking and spectacle and that it needs to explore new ways to communicate and transport man to a new place\u2014before giving a tour of the show and then going back to work in his new body.<\/p>\n<p>Ever amusing, Jankowski is a wizard at making art about art, while showing that art is always there, just below the surface, in all of the things we see and do\u2014it just takes a clever artist and the right medium to make it visible and known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petzel in New York is presenting Christian Jankowski&#8217;s third solo exhibition at the gallery. 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