22 March to 12 May 2018
Fasanenstraße 27, 10719 Berlin
Grisebach is pleased to present the exhibition "Neue Malerei" by Christian Jankowski (*1968) from 22 March.
Jankowski appropriates the works of icons of art history - Picasso, Richter, Warhol, Dürer and many others - by sending contemporary photographs of tableaux vivants found on the Internet to Shenzhen and having them painted in oil on canvas by copyists or artists in his Chinese studio. Conceptual art, in other words.
What we see here is not 'new painting' but the image we have of painting. However, it is not only painting that is taken to its beginnings and its limits, but also our concept of what art is.
With his unusual appropriation of masterpieces of art, Jankowski's approach can also be understood as a strand of Appropriation Art. The disturbingly beautiful picture gallery not only allows us to reflect on whether a canon still exists at all and which laws it follows, but also draws our attention to the fact that factors such as originality and aura, which have always been regarded as proof of true artistry in the traditional framework, are now being put to the test. Jankowski's New Painting is a lesson in this.
Jankowski holds a professorship for sculpture (installation, performance, video) at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He lives and works in Berlin and the opening of the exhibition will take place on Wednesday 21 March at 18:00.
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