Robert Janz - Page 1

Janz Prints
Passover Rose 4
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Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Robert Janz is a performance artist and a painter. According to Elvehjem curator Drew Stevens, "Robert Janz's art has combined aspects of performance with his more traditional skills as a draftsman. In the course of an exhibition, he would draw, redraw, and erase and image from the wall of his performance space over the course of a week or so. The resulting image was not merely completed day-by-day but transformed. Working during the day, so that people could see his drawing evolve, Janz allowed visitors to glimpse the process of creating art; he placed primary importance on the process rather than the product. This orientation toward process and change in his work made it especially appropriate for this artist to work with lithography. Print processes involve cutting away or adding to a metal block or metal plate, so making substantial changes to the image is a laborious process. The lithographic stone, on the other hand, is susceptible to various kinds of alterations so that an experienced lithographer can remove or rework an image, even reverse blacks for whites. The resulting print series chronicles Janz's drawing a rose in the process of budding, blooming and decaying."

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Passover Rose
State 4

Passover Rose
State 5