VernissageTV interviewed the artist Alexander Johannes Kraut, represented by Gallery Marianne Grob, Berlin and Luzern, at the Art Cologne 2005. He talks about his opus LIVRES DES IMAGES and about his scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
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00:00 Hello, this is Alexander Johannes Kraut.
00:02 And I mean, here there's a series of drawings I did.
00:08 I did them in Paris.
00:09 It's called the Livre des images.
00:12 And what inspired the drawings?
00:17 Well, that's a big question, because a lot of things
00:21 inspired me.
00:22 I came from the country into Paris,
00:25 so the cultural contrast was very big.
00:29 Because I was living in the Alps,
00:32 and there was everything calm, not so many people.
00:36 And then stepping into Paris city, into the center,
00:40 I had a lot of things to see.
00:45 And that inspired me a lot.
00:47 And it made my work go on fluently.
00:51 So I was drawing a lot.
00:52 I was doing a lot.
00:54 And I was very much with other people from other professions.
01:00 So in the drawings, you tell a story.
01:04 Well, actually, it has nothing to do
01:07 with the comic in the traditional way.
01:09 And I'm not influenced by comics.
01:12 I'm influenced by, maybe more by classical things,
01:16 but by Albrecht Durer, which I would say
01:19 is one of my great teachers.
01:22 Or by drawing all over the different decades.
01:30 But the main question is about pictures.
01:33 The book is called Livre des images.
01:35 It should be a book about how pictures work in ourself.
01:38 And I try to include all the types of pictures.
01:43 The painting is maybe the main issue, the painting
01:47 from a totally different time.
01:49 And he's in the museum there.
01:52 And I realized by myself that the interesting thing,
01:55 that I did this in the morning, this drawing.
02:00 And in the evening, I did this.
02:02 I'm not working after a concept directly.
02:04 I just start.
02:05 It's not something which is planned.
02:08 So I was wondering about that this body is kind of the same.
02:12 It heated up.
02:13 This is the building.
02:14 And I wanted this figure, which I created,
02:19 I wanted it to visit myself.
02:23 So he enters my studio.
02:25 He's knocking at the door.
02:27 This is exactly my room.
02:30 And I was always using those-- ah,
02:32 [GERMAN]
02:33 I don't know how to say it in English--
02:35 to put the drawings onto the wall.
02:37 And this is a furniture I was building with one shoe.
02:42 It's forbidden to bring furniture with you.
02:44 So I had to build it up in the room by garbage from outside.
02:47 So yeah, and I'm drawing there.