SAENGER Gallery is honored to present at its new headquarters the second individual exhibition in Mexico by the painter Robert Janitz (Alsfeld, Germany, 1962), which is called “El secreto del mundo” (The Secret of the World).

After making his debut in Latin America with a site-specific exhibition at Casa Gilardi (by renowned architect Luis Barragán) last spring, Robert Janitz is now showing a previously unseen selection of large-format paintings and sculptures integrated into a specially-made color installation. by him for the walls of the Main Room of SAENGER Gallery.

Charged with a strong sense of humor and irony, the recent work of Robert Janitz abounds in the landscape, as an artifice of painting and an event of nature, as the one that the artist has been discovering (and recreating in the degraded background and on the synthetic front of his polychrome paintings) after establishing his residence in Mexico City.

El Secreto del Mundo by Robert Janitz offers a heterogeneous and coherent vision of a landscape that, from being so real, a volcano for example, becomes imaginary, a scribble that in the repetition of its forms articulates an order, the announcement of a writing that summons us and questions from its joint closeness and strangeness.