ZOO Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ZOO MagazineInstagram)「Friedrich Kunath describes himself as a fanatical Oasis fan and a passionate tennis player. As an artist he paints heartbreaking pictures of romantic longings which often reveal a bitter flip side [...] Professionally, he considers himself more a director or composer than a serious painter: He reassembles opposing fragments and lyrics, that in combination, open up new dimensions – between melancholy and irony, love and loss, poetry and politics, Nietzsche and Goofy – and reveals the complex simultaneity and contradictory duality of our lives. Kunath wants to touch us through what touches him. He brings light into darkness, pain into pleasure, and by that, creates the irresistible pull of his colorful paintings, not without humor or self-irony. In a cheerful and profound video call, he told us about the current situation in the US, his creative process, his favorite painting, and spoke very openly about the ups and downs in his life. Kunath’s art bridges the polarities that have shaped his life, animating in instinctive detail where these emotional milestones intersect and engage with one another. “In retrospect, it is interesting to see that I always had to deal with two extremes. Two state systems: East and West, capitalism and communism. The extreme euphoria and great sadness, the melancholy. That has been with me since my early childhood. I'm living in contradiction to my history and to myself. That is the red thread from which I have shaped my work. Or the work has formed itself from it and has created an illustration out of these contradictions" Interview by Bettina Krause Friedrich Kunath, For The Last Time....Hello (2020) Courtesy Studio FK #friedrichkunath #painting #zoomagazine #zoomagazineissue67」7月21日 1時49分