Artless

Artless / Sans fard, sans art is a 92-page, full-colour collection of paintings on electronic canvas and public art from 2025 that features essays by Canadian author Yann Martel, and curators Honggyun Mok and Elizabeth Herbert. It is bilingual in English and French, presented side by side throughout, and is available in both softcover and hardcover. The book is a vivid passage into the art of right now—an invitation to encounter painting and public art as living presences. Across its pages, colour doesn’t sit still: it radiates, clashes, harmonizes, and vibrates. Renata Janiszewska’s originals aren’t variations on a theme; they’re singularities—works that refuse imitation and reward close looking with new facets each time.Created in 2025, these paintings and public interventions map a moment when material, memory, and place collide. Her use of custom brushes results in work that is unmistakably Renata Janiszewska’s: bold, chromatically fearless, and distinguished by her spirit and her signature brushwork. Janiszewska isn’t hammering away trying to get at your eyeballs; she doesn’t come forward with a sledgehammer. Instead, her work is seductive rather than assaultive.This book is a celebration of originality—stunning colours that astonish without shouting, of forms that feel inevitable yet new, and of public spaces and pages that amplify each other. There is a spirit of experimentation throughout.At the heart of Artless/ Sans fard, sans art is an embrace of immediacy—art made without guile, art that shows its workings. Janiszewska’s public artworks extend the conversation beyond the walls, meeting passersby with blazing palettes and unexpected forms that turn shared space into a stage for attention, surprise, and reflection. Read more