In conversation with .. 4!

Klaus Kremmerz
Milan, Italy
@klauskremmerz
It’s been almost 2 months since selfisolation
has been enforced worldwide,
how are you feeling?
I feel good, I think those who work in
creativity take the lead in this situation.
Personally I’ve always worked alone,
the isolation, the work closed in a room,
it’s normal for me. Of course, I miss the
freedom to be able to go out without
precautions, without a mask for example,
but all in all two months is not that long if
we were talking about a year it would be
different.
What have you been doing to pass your
time in quarantine?
I work and I have a nice monthly
collaboration with the Financial Times
for the magazine “How To Spend It” so I
make 4 images per month for them, one
for each issue of the magazine. I have a
monthly image also for GQ France, and
other occasional projects, recently I worked
for Men’s Health UK, I made an image for
WeTransfer that was printed and given to
employees in quarantine, and I just finished
a series of images for Die Zeit.
out properly. I’ve made a few sketches, we’ll see how it will go.
Have any unexpected benefits come out of this situation for you?
What do you wish for the future?
The benefits will be mainly environmental, I think. I hope this
situation pushes even more decisively on green investments. I have
seen these days images of Venice with clear water, pink jellyfish
swimming in transparency, I think this effect will be felt globally.
Many cities are thinking of speeding up the reduction of traffic by
favouring electric vehicles and pedestrian areas. In short, my hope
is that we can actually take possession of a better world. so what I
think also coincides with the hope of a better future.
Where can we buy your art?
At the moment you can’t buy my prints, I haven’t organized yet,
but LUMAS is a company that I like, if a proposal came from them
I could consider it, I know they are based in Germany, maybe you
can introduce me ;-)
How has the situation affected your work?
Well, I’ve certainly had a decrease in
orders, some projects are cancelled, others
are postponed (which means probably
cancelled). But I think we needed this
moment of contraction with everyone. My
clients at the moment are cautious, they
prefer to cut what is not fundamental and
this often means the images created ad hoc,
it is understandable. I think however that
everything will go back as before, even if we
did not say when.
Do you have a day-to-day lockdown
routine?
No, I don’t have a lockdown routine. My
routine hasn’t changed much, let’s say I
have more time than before to think about
personal projects. There is, for example, a
game for adults that I have in mind that I
would like to make but it has to be thought
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