Clay Street Press
September 2016
Franz Jantzen, Wotan, King of the Gods (variation no. 16), 2016. Archival digital print, 37 x 11 inches. Courtesy of the artist
Franz Jantzen, Handgun No. 22 (beta), 2016. Archival digital print, 23 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist
DATA
September 30, 2016 - November 12, 2016
DATA is an exhibition of work by Franz Jantzen, a Washington, D.C.-based photographer. In this exhibition, Jantzen merges his subjects with the tools used to render them. The result is a machine-generated hybrid of automatic, handmade, and spontaneity gently-caught. An aural equivalent would be the sounds made by an electric guitarist who is manipulating the instrument to make music it is not intended to make. The result is not a document of the thing portrayed but instead a poem that merges object and process.