Robert Janitz en el Anahuacalli

From June to September over 30 works by Robert Janitz will be on display throughout the three levels of the museum and the exterior of the architectural complex. Works include paintings, large-format sculptures and an NFT. Several pieces were made specifically for this exhibition, such as Bees of the Future, and the four sculptures carved out of basalt and quarry stone from the State of Mexico and Michoacán. Robert Janitz at the Anahuacalli   Like Diego Rivera, Robert Janitz was born in the mountains. Diego spent his childhood in Guanajuato, which means ‘hill of frogs’ in the Purépecha language. Robert grew up in Alsfeld in central Germany, very close to the great basalt range of Vogelsberg, which translates as ‘mountain of birds’. Robert and Diego share a rocky way of thinking, and a vocabulary typical of children who amuse themselves by gathering stones. It seems that they share a geological DNA, a mineral origin. Janitz creates obsessive repetitions of the same subjects: volcanoes and bacilli that intertwine. Beyond an aesthetic exercise, Robert produces an almost metaphysical and spiritual experience, much like what happens when one murmurs a mantra. With each variation the artist disperses particles throughout the multiverse, elements which communicate between one another with smoke signals that leave traces and materialize in our dimension.  According to Diego, the paintings of the painter José María Velasco were never faithful representations of reality, but rather optical and mathematical exercises that constructed a landscape that did not exist as such. Janitz paints two-dimensional, non-figurative sculptures that play with a similar intention: they function as access points for deciphering secret subterranean systems and unraveling the underlying layers of his work.