Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters (Three Part Object)
2017
C-print on baryta paper
40 x 60 inches
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
2017
Installation view
2018
Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters (Three Part Object)
2017
C-print on baryta paper
40 x 60 inches
Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters (Richard Henry Bunton)
2017
C-print on baryta paper
40 x 60 inches
Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters (The Wind Tells)
2017
C-print on baryta paper
40 x 60 inches
Christian Jankowski
Zeitgenössische Verabschiedung (Contemporary Farewell)
2017
Sculpture, mixed media (polymer-plaster, metal, wood, sound equipment) sound, German
114.2 x 110.2 x 45.3 inches
Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters
2017
Video installation, 36:54 min, PAL, 16:9, color, sound, Japanese with English subtitles and massage furniture
Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters
2017
Video installation, 36:54 min, PAL, 16:9, color, sound, Japanese with English subtitles and massage furniture
Christian Jankowski
Massage Masters
2017
Video installation, 36:54 min, PAL, 16:9, color, sound, Japanese with English subtitles and massage furniture
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Barack Obama
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Salvador and Gala
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Granny Alphabet
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Schotte mit Stöcken
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Ödipus
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Blindes Kind
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Rembrandt
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Asclepios
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Landstreicher
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Rihanna
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Georgia O'Keeffe
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Fred Astaire
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Brad
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Kung Fu Warrior
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Saint Jakob
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Tiny Granny
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Audrey Hepburn
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Pilgrim going up Fujiyama
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Nelso
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Gangs of New York
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Oprah Winfrey
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Paul
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Muammar Al Gaddafi
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Kim Jong Un
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Charlie
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Hans im Glück
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Walking Logic - Priamos
2017
Walking sticks, carved wood (between 79 and 143 cm long)
Black and white digital prints (each 29.7 x 21 cm)
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Scarlett Johansson
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal, chalk and lead pencil on paper
22.24 x 28.11 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Adrien Brody
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal and coloured pencil on paper
19.09 x 25.98 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Jack Nicholson
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal and coloured pencil on paper
22.24 x 28.11 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - George Clooney
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal and coloured pencil on paper
22.24 x 28.11 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - John Travolta
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal and pencil on paper
20.08 x 24.02 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Tessa Charlotte Rampling
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal, chalk and lead pencil on paper
22.24 x 28.11 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Nastassja Kinski
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal and coloured pencil on paper
22.24 x 28.11 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Alain Delon
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal, chalk and lead pencil on paper
22.24 x 28.11 inches
Christian Jankowski
Isabelle Huppert - Sophia Loren
Me in the Eyes of another Actor
2017
Drawing, coal and coloured pencil on paper
17.52 x 23.03 inches
June 2016: Jankowski’s two-year curatorial commitment ends as Manifesta 11 opens in Zurich; the artist begins work for Petzel’s January 2017 show.
November 6th, 2016: Donald J. Trump is elected to be the 45th President of the United States.
The Petzel show is canceled.
January 2017: We need to talk… opens at Petzel; the new president is sworn in; women march on Washington. In spring, London begins divorce proceedings from Europe; Macron wins the presidency of France. Early summer, and the Rohingya crisis swells in Myanmar; global markets soar; the world continues to warm. In the fall, Mohammad bin Salman begins to remake Saudi Arabia; Mosul is liberated; hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria devastate huge swathes of the Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico. As the sun sets on 2017, the Weinstein scandal breaks; Robert Mugabe falls; Catalonia’s autonomy is suspended.
For Jankowski, 2017 begins with a jarring slip—an election derails his third solo show at Petzel, his first New York show in five years. The postponement is detoxifying; as the year progresses, time becomes the transformative force. 2017 mines the significance of art within an art historical framework, often overlaying one time period with another—masterpieces of western painting, the Internet age, and Chinese experts in replication merge and intersect in his Neue Malerei series. Massage Masters, Walking Logic, and The Loan, transpose the new with the atavistic—master masseuses apply techniques used on the human body to sculpture; the stabilizing influence of the walking stick is made cogent, while the ritual pain of loss is examined in The Loan. In a twelve-month period, Jankowski revisits, reworks, and reconsiders concepts and practices within his oeuvre, to produce work in 2017 that is itself dilated, distorted, and re-envisioned by time.
Christian Jankowski was born in 1968 in Göttingen, Germany and lives and works in Berlin.
Petzel Gallery is located at 456 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM–6:00 PM. For press inquires, please contact Janine Latham at janine@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.
