{"id":8810,"date":"2025-06-11T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewmaster-projects.com\/?page_id=8810"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T13:29:56","slug":"christian-jankovski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.viewmaster-projects.com\/en\/christian-jankovski\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Jankowski"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/6″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]\n

Viewmaster Projects presents two video works by Christian Jankowski in the group exhibition The GAP, during Heiligdomsvaart Maastricht.<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]\n

Casting Jesus (2011) &
\nThe Holy Artwork (2001)<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]\n

From 12 to 22 June \u2014 12 to 6 p.m.<\/h3>\n

Basement of SNS bank, Eiffelgebouw, Petrus Regoutplein 3, Maastricht<\/h3>\n

\u00a0Free entrance<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]Christian Jankowski \u2014 Casting Jesus (2011)<\/strong>
\nDouble screen, 60 min.<\/p>\n

In preparation for Casting Jesus, Jankowski asked a casting agency in Rome to provide actors to audition for the role of Jesus. The 13 who showed up competed according to casting show procedure \u2013 similar to what\u2019s seen on American Idol.<\/p>\n

in the Complesso Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome \u2013 a hospital for pilgrims in medieval times the actors were judged by a distinguished panel of real Vatican members: Rev. Msgr. Jos. Manuel Del R\u00edo Carrasco; Sandro Barbagallo, art critic at the Vatican newspaper L\u2019Osservatore Romano; and Massimo Giraldi, journalist and secretary of the Commission for Film Classification of the Italian Bishop Conference.<\/p>\n

The contestants competed in various tasks, including breaking bread, performing a miracle, and carrying the cross. In addition, they delivered dramatic interpretations of quotes, taken from the Bible, spoken by Jesus. In a separate space, an audience was able to watch the procedure projected on a large screen via live stream.<\/p>\n

Besides the video installation, Jankowski had photographs taken of all the Jesus contestants in action and paired these with quotes from the jury about their decision. The Monsignor also took a picture of the winner with his smartphone, which Jankowski then turned into a series of prayer cards (complete with a psalm of the Monsignor\u2019s choosing). Whereas it used to be that the church supported art, here the initiative came from art \u2013 to support the church\u2019s imagination of its iconography.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][image_with_animation image_url=”8820″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”center” img_link_target=”lightbox” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]Christian Jankowski \u2014 The Holy Artwork (2001)<\/strong>
\nSingle screen, 15:52 min.<\/p>\n

During a televised church service at the evangelical Harvest Fellowship Church in Texas, Pastor Peter Spencer invites Jankowski to the stage \u2013 as previously agreed upon by the two. Video Camera in hand, Jankowski climbs the steps but suddenly collapses at the feed of the TV pastor, where he remains motionless. In that moment, the view seen in the video The Holy Artwork<\/em> changes from Jankowski’s handheld camera to that of the church’s studio set. Pastor Spencer uses the opportunity to preach to his lively congregation – as well as TV audiences and future art audiences \u2013 about the indivisibility of artistic creativity and the creative force of God. Jankowski’ s performance is a >>holy artwork<< that bridges art, religion, and television. The pastor then asks the congregation in the church and watching on TV to pray for the future of the artwork. Afterwards, the artist gets back on his feet; only by first relinquishing control over the form and the authorship of the work was Jankowski able to speak to audiences[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][image_with_animation image_url=”8846″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”center” img_link_target=”lightbox” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/6″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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