[spectre] New podcast: Robert Janz talks about his urban interventions, about art, Buddhism, politics, poetry and the passage of time.

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast: *Robert Janz talks about his urban interventions, about art,
Buddhism, politics, poetry and the passage of time.
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Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/robert-janz-/capsula

Robert Janz is a painter sculptor, printmaker, poet and street artist. He
was born in Belfast in 1932 and studied at the Rinehart School of Sculpture
in Baltimore, and by the time he turned twenty he had started drawing on
the wet sand on Venice Beach, Los Angeles, using sticks he picked up along
the way. The lines were erased by the incoming waves and he obsessively
drew them again and again. These early ephemeral drawings eventually became
the project 'Waves Between Waves' (1977), which got him into a gallery and
into the art scene.

With his long-standing interest in transience, change, and movement, the
work of Robert Janz is imbued with Zen philosophy and defends the poetic
potential of the ephemeral. Janz makes sculptures out of branches and bits
of wood he finds on the streets. He makes drawings with water on rocks and
walls. And he projects fleeting shadows in the city. Don’t be surprised if
you come across him painting arrows, mountains, or buffalo on torn posters
and graffiti in New York. Or if you come upon a haiku street poem as you
wonder through Tribeca: it will probably one of his 'POST NO BILLS' poems.
For Janz, the walls of the city are like the rocks of primitive artists,
and his figures, reminiscent of cave paintings, flood the streets with
prehistoric echoes. From the freedom of his “outsider” art, Janz defends
the incendiary power of art.

*Timeline*
*03:14* I'm not a street artist. I do things in the street
*08:05* Art words
*10:16* From the caves of Almeria to the asphalt of Tribeca
*12:50* Waterglyphs
*13:45* People cannot see what there are not prepared to see
*15:35* A work that disappears
*18:25* Paper and lemon
*19:50* Politics and poetry
*21:58* The power of words

*ENJOY!!*
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