COLLECTION 2 - AVANT-GARDE
The Avant-Garde. Hello, welcome to our second KALTBLUT Collection. www.kaltblut-magazine.com 400 pages of the theme Avant-Garde. www.kaltblut-magazine.com Featuring artists like: Adam Green, Tata Christiane, Slava Mogutin, SELLAH, Kristian Jalonen, Kali, Emilie Simon, Tobias Jundt, Remedios Varo, Marc Johns, Reka Koti, Kelly De Block, Berglind Agustsdottir, Andrew Huan, Emma Elina Keira Jones, Amanda Morgan Jansson, Susu Laroche, Jeroen Mylle and many more. Published by Marcel Schlutt
The Avant-Garde. Hello, welcome to our second KALTBLUT Collection. www.kaltblut-magazine.com 400 pages of the theme Avant-Garde. www.kaltblut-magazine.com Featuring artists like: Adam Green, Tata Christiane, Slava Mogutin, SELLAH, Kristian Jalonen, Kali, Emilie Simon, Tobias Jundt, Remedios Varo, Marc Johns, Reka Koti, Kelly De Block, Berglind Agustsdottir, Andrew Huan, Emma Elina Keira Jones, Amanda Morgan Jansson, Susu Laroche, Jeroen Mylle and many more. Published by Marcel Schlutt
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KALTBLUT<br />
KALTBLUT: What does Avant-garde mean to you? Why<br />
did you choose to move in a surrealistic direction with<br />
your art?<br />
Adam: That’s a term I don’t often use and it’s certainly<br />
not the type of thing one would say about themselves.<br />
As far as surrealism, I spend a lot of energy excavating<br />
my inner world and my life is like a dream come true.<br />
Maybe I pursued surrealism because I had to seek out<br />
the truth.<br />
KALTBLUT: Avant-garde is all about experimenting, what<br />
was your relation to art as a child? How did you start painting?<br />
Adam: Oh I see.. When I was a kid I used to draw pictures<br />
of the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade<br />
centers, probably because I lived in New York. I wanted<br />
to become a cartoonist at some point and I started<br />
drawing comics with my Babysitter.<br />
Then I learned about computer animation and I tried to<br />
become a videogame designer. But it’s hard to get a<br />
job at Nintendo.<br />
KALTBLUT: If you ever created a self portrait what would<br />
it look like? Which colours would it include most etc?<br />
Adam: I have a self-portrait in “Cartoon and Complaint.”<br />
I’ve depicted myself as Aladdin holding a lamp. The<br />
background is dark blue and it has rich black lines. I see<br />
myself changing into Aladdin these days.<br />
I feel like Aladdin is leaving Garfield behind.<br />
KALTBLUT: Would you say there is some sort of connection<br />
between your paintings and sculptures and your lyrics?<br />
What’s similar and what’s different?<br />
Adam: Certainly. I’m pretty connected to my symbolic<br />
vocabulary and I write about similar subjects as I paint.<br />
Though last time I tried to write a song about chairs<br />
it basically broke up the band. The sculptures are all<br />
self-portraits. Those cat-faces remind me of the way<br />
that I felt one time.<br />
KALTBLUT: There are lots of pop culture references but<br />
also some classical elements in your work.<br />
Which figures do you feel you have been influenced<br />
by and how so? Which artists or movements do you<br />
appreciate?<br />
Adam: I really enjoy George Rouault, he’s probably<br />
my favorite painter. Also I like Jean Dubuffet, Philip<br />
Guston, Albert Pinkham Ryder, George Condo, James<br />
Ensor. It’s all pretty cool but I feel like there is a showbusiness<br />
element to all these guys. And then there are<br />
the guys that I hate and I follow their careers too!<br />
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