ROBERT
JANITZ
Made
in
New
York
»Nostalgia is a stranger here.
New York lives in the present tense.«
»Nostalgia is a stranger here.
New York lives in the present tense.«
Distanz Verlag has dedicated a cataloge to his large-scale canvas works of the New York years: Robert Janitz, Made in New York (144 pages, 2020). The following is an excerpt from the artist’s personal foreword, as well as an insight into the publication’s extensive series of images.
Exhibition view: Change in Paradise at KÖNIG LONDON, London, UK, 2019 © Damian Griffiths
»Much has been said about the Big Apple, much has been repeated. To me, New York fulfilled the promise I sensed it had in store: it was the perfect stage for me to become more than the baggage I had brought from Europe.
2020-2010 – ten years of me painting in New York. Ten years down the rabbit hole, ten years forward, ten years present – what is a decade when its last six months are an eternity?
Nostalgia is a stranger here. New York lives in the present tense. I came to realize a painting is less about surface than it is about time. It only exists in a transience, in the shared time of the onlooker.«
Robert Janitz,
Mexico City, August, 2020
