Interview Constanze Claudia Lorenz
O-A: What is art to you? Is creating an urge, necessity or maybe an incontournable, essential way of life?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: Both. I have the unimpeded urge to express myself through the medium of art. Everything seems possible in art. It makes me feel immortal. I love to see and understand life through the eyes of art.
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O-A: What wouldn’t you do without art? What did you discover, achieve with it?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: It seems everything is possible in art, everything can be said and expressed. If I didn’t create art I would be an art collector.
O-A: Who or what inspired you artistically; a person, artist, event, experience…
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: These were famous painters, photographers, sculptors, glass blowers and writers in my youth who inspired me. In the GDR there was a large community of artists and there was great solidarity between the artists. I observed a lot as a young woman. I was supported and sent on my way. To this day, artists from different genres belong to my circle of friends. We inspire each other.
O-A: What is a vivid memory of a remark concerning your art that got stuck with you?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: Customers who bought several pictures said: We have hung your pictures in the foyer of our house and when we enter the house, we refuel with the pictures.
It’s the same when you go out.
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O-A: What was the most interesting statement you heard about your work?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: Art connoisseurs said my pictures were a mixture of Gerhard Richter and Jackson Pollock. That honored me.
O-A: How do you search for inspiration and themes for your work?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: I find inspiration in nature and in the city. I absorb images and situations in life and process them into one image
O-A: Are you a synesthet? Have synesthet ever commented on your paintings? How?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: Definitely, I can taste my colors. They whet your appetite for more. Customers said about my pictures, music is soul that is how it could be described …
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O-A: What names do you give your artworks?
Constanze Claudia Lorenz: These are places and situations that inspired me to take this picture.
Often the titles of my pictures are words that are a metaphor for a certain feeling.
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Interview Constanze Claudia Lorenz 19.10.2020