Strip The Auctioneer at Chrisite's

With Strip the Auctioneer, Christian Jankowski has achieved a total coup - certainly not coincidentally at a time when an artist has put his works up for auction independently for the first time, bypassing the intermediary market of a gallery. Was this really about the elitist distribution strategies of the market, or rather a sale organized by the artist and auction house at top prices? Christian Jankowski explains this spectacle with all its components as a work of art itself. The book documents this unique performance in a manner reminiscent of an ordinary auction catalog. With Strip the Auctioneer Christian Jankowski landed a real coup, and surely not coincidentally at a time when another artist, in an unprecedented move, avoided the intermediary gallery trade and auctioned off his annual production directly. Is it really all about the elitist distribution strategies of the market, or rather about an organized sale by an artist and auctioneer at top prices? Christian Jankowski declares this spectacle and all its components to be a work of art.