Christian Jankowski
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Christian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist
who largely works with video
, installation
and photography
.
He has created a number of television interventions. His video installation Telemistica was included in the 1999 Venice Biennale
, and shows five Italian television fortune-tellers responding to a phoned-in question about the artist's success of failure at the upcoming Biennale. The Holy Artwork (2001) is a collaboration with a televangelist pastor. In 2002, Jankowski participated in the Whitney Biennial
.
His work has been associated with New Gothic Art
.
ahead of Frieze Art Fair
in October 2011 Jankowski said of his new work, 'The Finest Art on Water' "I’m not saying it’s the best investment ever. History will show! If you can afford it and you’ve already spent 65 million then if you spend 75, there’s a chance that this vessel will have a higher value in the future. My artistic career, the next works that I will do, will inform the price of this thing.”
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who largely works with video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
and photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
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He has created a number of television interventions. His video installation Telemistica was included in the 1999 Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
, and shows five Italian television fortune-tellers responding to a phoned-in question about the artist's success of failure at the upcoming Biennale. The Holy Artwork (2001) is a collaboration with a televangelist pastor. In 2002, Jankowski participated in the Whitney Biennial
Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Biennial is a biennale exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932, the first biennial was in 1973...
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His work has been associated with New Gothic Art
New Gothic Art
-Manifesto:The Neo Gothic Art Manifesto was written by gothic artist Charles Moffat in 2001, who also coined the term "Neo Gothic" in an effort to differentiate it from gothic architecture...
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Notable works
- My Life as a Dove (1996)
- Let's get physical/digital (1997–1998)
- Telemistica (1999)
- The Holy Artwork (2001), held in the collection of the Tate Gallery, LondonTate-Places:*Tate, Georgia, a town in the United States*Tate County, Mississippi, a county in the United States*Táté, the Hungarian name for Totoi village, Sântimbru Commune, Alba County, Romania*Tate, Filipino word for States...
. - Point of Sale (2002), held in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
- Tableux Vivant TV (2010), produced for the Biennale of SydneyBiennale of SydneyThe Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is the largest and best-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country...
- The Finest Art on Water (2011), first on show at Frieze Art FairFrieze Art FairFrieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair that takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of frieze magazine...
Quotes
In an interview with Phaidon PressPhaidon Press
Phaidon Press is a British publisher of books on the visual arts, including art, architecture, photography, and design worldwide.As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo...
ahead of Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Art Fair is an international contemporary art fair that takes place every October in London's Regent's Park. The fair is staged by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the publishers of frieze magazine...
in October 2011 Jankowski said of his new work, 'The Finest Art on Water' "I’m not saying it’s the best investment ever. History will show! If you can afford it and you’ve already spent 65 million then if you spend 75, there’s a chance that this vessel will have a higher value in the future. My artistic career, the next works that I will do, will inform the price of this thing.”
External links
- Klosterfelde.de a description of the artist and his work
- Christian Jankowski on Artcyclopedia
- Lisson Gallery
- postmedia.net
- BBC interview
- ArtForum review
- For the Neons Project , «What I still have to take care of» a neon installation by C. Jankowski, 2007