ANDREAS GOLDER IS GETTING TIRED OF GORE

By TOM LITTLEWOOD

After looking at his latest work, I can say he is one of the most unpretentious German artists around (high praise if you’ve ever met any German artists), and has figured out a way to combine trash with classical art without it being corny. His paintings and scultures have an addictive quality I’ve been trying to shake since we shot the interview.

Anyways, since we visited him a while back, I decided to drop him a line and find out what he’s been upto since then.

Vice: Hi Andreas, thanks for coming in for a chat.
Andreas Golder: No problem, I couldn’t read your email because my computer crashed. Too much porn I think.

That happens. So, the last time we met, you were preparing for your solo show at White Cube, how did that work out?
I had the room upstairs to myself, so we put down a black carpet, painted the walls dark gray, and had this sound installation of a human heart beat to accompany the paintings and sculptures. It was really dark.

Nice.
Some of the people got scared and had to leave, but on the whole it was a great experience. Somebody called it “school boy humor”, but that’s fine with me, I like school boy humor.

No kidding, that’s some of the best. What else have you been upto since then?
Well, I got back to Berlin totally broke. It was funny, I’d just had a show at White Cube and I couldn’t even afford a ticket for the subway back from the airport. But a week later Matthias Arndt called and was like, “Hey Andreas, can you do a show?”. So, I was quite busy until April.

When we were filming, we spent a long time looking through old medical books with pictures of disected corspes. It’s interesting to see how you’ve adapted those images in your most recent paintings.
Yeah, I’m moving onto the Renaissance now, going deeper into art history – particularly Da Vinci and the classic sculptures. I’m really painting something different now.

It seems like there’s a lot more color now.
Well, I had reduced my palette to six colors when painting the dark series and now I have over twenty. I was kind of bored with those six after a year. It’s easier with six though, because everything fits together and works.

Are you still listening to a lot of black metal?
No, now I’ve moved on to Baroque opera, but it’s kind of the same, you know?

By TOM LITTLEWOOD 2 years ago

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