ROBERT JANITZ
Looking for Something in
You,
but Going to Change Everything Around You

»You could see it as a meta painting where instead of making brush
marks with a paintbrush, I just select specific paintings and construct
this kind of larger painting.«

»You could see it as
a meta painting where instead
of making brush marks with a paintbrush, I just select specific paintings and construct this kind of larger painting.«

Robert Janitz’s unique language of abstract painting is based on a restricted vocabulary of elements: gradient backgrounds and vertical stripes that reflect a steady and methodical movement against their surfaces. The gestural traces of Janitz’s forms operate according to complementary sets of limits – the edge of each canvas and the reach of an individual body. As if constantly grasping at his own physical extremities, Janitz was able to completely reimagine the relationship between background and foreground, ultimately doing away with their distinction almost entirely.

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ROBERT JANITZ

Robert Janitz (b. 1962 in Alsfeld, Germany) lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. He studied Ethnology, Comparative Religion, Indology, and Art History at the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany.

Robert Janitz is known for his large abstract paintings for which he uses oil in combination with wax and flour on a monochrome background.

His works have been shown in many international solo and group exhibitions, amongst others in San Carlo, Cremona, Italy; Diego Rivera Museum Anahuacalli, Mexico City, Mexico; the Sevil Dolmaci Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey; the Canada Gallery, New York City, USA; KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany; ...
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