Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch es un genio.

Neo Rauch nació en Alemania.

Neo Rauch estuvo bastante influenciado por el surrealismo y logra reinterpretarlo bastante bien.

Neo Rauch, ¿juega con dos imágenes opuestas siempre?

Neo Rauch ... "está pintando su cultura, su historia todo el tiempo".

Quizás lo tome como un absurdo, como un mecanismo para producir obra. Es una excusa... no sé si habla o no de Alemania y la violencia, y su pasado, y blah blah blah ni me importa.

You've called your earliest paintings (from 1993) in the Wolfsburg show your first "valid" pictures. How do you judge a painting's "validity?"

Let's go back to that image of the internal compass that I just spoke of: Before 1993 the magnetic needle was swinging all over the place. Discovering my position was complicated, because there were so many artistic points of reference. I was overwhelmed by all of the possibilities coming into my studio from thousands of different directions. My work displayed violent mood swings from abstraction to figuration, and this was just one of the many internal conflicts I faced at the time.

Had it not been for an extraordinarily evocative dream that brought me to my senses at exactly the right moment, I may have turned into one of those semi-abstract decorators. But the images in that dream were like communications from the deepest realms of my being. They were the direct source of the tondo pictures that I made at the time. They amounted to a sort of synthesis that I hadn't managed up until that point.

"Validity" comes down to the extent to which the uniqueness of the artist's psyche can establish a permanence of form and meaning in the actual work. Since 1993, I have been able to focus better on sorting out what is most significant for me.