Since I first met this fucked up kid eons ago, I always admired his style. The first time I entered his apartment, I was fascinated with his stone water fountain in his living room, paintings on the walls (literally painting... ON the walls) and a room so secret you would think he was hiding the ark of the covenant. Andrew has become a good friend to me and mine over the years. I attempt to examine (an)drew and his work as he manifests himself into a soon to be, On-line enigma.
Interview with (an)drew madinc
"First off, I want to congratulate you once again, on the opening of revoindustries.com. I went through the site and really like the feel... no doubt another extension of you art persona. Having seen your paintings in the physical, how do you see the site in respect to your work?"
"The website was a long time building in several ways, personally I had to allow it to happen which can be a hard place to get to, and physically getting the web designer ("the pixel") and I in the same place, and working out schedules, we spent 2 weeks of work, drinking, eating, and making this a very creative point in this step of REVO. I would say that the work looks a bit different on line, and with me large scale paintings, due to sheer size, they can only be seen properly in person. I am very happy with the website, and in the end i realized I could have not worked on it with anyone else."
"How will the site manifest itself? I mean, do you and 'the pixel' see something in revoindustries.com's future?"
"I got plans, step 1: had to be the website, step 2: is putting together this monster show I'm working on ("now(h)ere") which will have roughly 43 works in it. Step 3: somewhere after that period is opening the physical shop. It became important for me some time back, to revolutionize the way i approach the way i work, and the way others view this work, so i can not and will not go through the gallery circuit. In general art only survives on the streets, and in the physical creation aspect, to me having your work in galleries is the end for me as a creator. The website will change and grow and move with the work i create, and will have diverse "satellite" artist in the future, that will also help the sites character build."
"Yes, I've met plenty of people who suddenly, have gallery showings for their work, when I didn't realize they had work in the first place! They obviously didn't take it seriously, and now that I think about it you can't very well take THEM seriously as anyone who put any effort into their work or the gallery that parade them as the central attraction! I see how an artist and this 'area' can be sideswiped by exhibitionists and scabs!"
"I meet people all the time that give me the noise about "art being everything around you" and me reply is right, then we have no reason for the word and or deff. of art and its done art can be buried. I usually escape them and keep people around me that are not in a life-sleep. Galleries are a tomb, you can not trust the people that run them, they are in it for the sale, and what the work at the gallery will do for their name. After the show they bury you and move to the next."
"Where are you currently living now?
Does your immediate environment offer anything that fuels or siphons your inspiration?"
"anti-stalk america", me invironement will always and forever be apart of me work, a viewer will not notice but i can always recall where i was when i created a work and who i was around due to whats in the work, meaning the persons dna is stalking the work. Me work may be social, or political, but i always have personal themes and frank mirrors to remind me. the only ghost i believe in."
"How much of the viewer's interpretation are you willing to accept, like... is there a distinct message that you want the viewer to have?"
"Interpretation is superstition, metaphors we all grasp in our own history of personal growth, when i create I dont at all think of perceptions of others, I have somehow voided that out and am aware of it because i have had conversations concerning this topic, after a work is done that perception is filtered in due to people talking to me about the work. Usually me work starts with an image that i have created in me head, and that image is usually a personal metaphore in itself, and when i can or will actually get to creating the work, is based on the cycle or previous steps in work that i have created. The only part of me work that is based on other people , is the fact that me work in metaphore is actually based on other people. Images are almost targets to me, and sometimes i have to do a series of an idea until i can feel i can literally bury this "ghost" within."
"I imagine through that process you may loose some of your original idea, has this happened to the point where you become disillusioned with the final outcome or do you just lets the cards 'lie' where they may?"
"In several years past i had a habit of destory-ing me work after putting meself through the act of going into the work too deep, and then having to view it everyday on me walls. That was not exactly the point of creating it, and i am not a depressed person as it is, so i had to alter the way i created, and that caused me to find other ways to get something across to meself in the work. Having to re-create many of these works after loosing them in "hurricane katrina" didn't help the story either, in the aftermath i was able to as me mates say "come back with revenge". I am able today as a painter or creator to somehow get everything i want (and more) in me work. Even recently looking back at work i did after the hurricane, i have decided to go back and re-dux (due to being damaged from being a nomad). The secret of the show i am working on is that it is designed to give me the chance to heal different parts of me as the the progression of the show is created."
"You use a mix of photography and oils. Are you 'married' to specific materials when working?"
"no i am not married completely, i use a large amount of different materials but in the work right now there is an on-going usage of the standard materials. I use, oils, spray paints, hand made paints, acrylics, chalk, pastels, charcoal, hair, dna, plastic, glass, tar paper, synthetic materials, marinade sauce, etc. me work actually never has standard photographs, i have transfered images on to plastic and in some cases re-create 75% of the image by hand. On me large scale paintings i never use photographs, everything is created by hand, and might i add, that every image in me work (now) is created by me. Also, despite me using human dna, me work is animal free."
"currently the work displayed are from one artist, will/is revoindustries become a sort of collective?"
"The idea behind REVO, it had to start with me as using me as the guinea pig, before i put anyone else through what REVO is going after, and what REVO will become is partially planned and partially left to time itself."
"Could you give an analysis of your favorite piece?"
"As a large scale painting "bombasti(c)ontingent", one of the only works i created that actually survived miss. katrina, and i will always be true to "joiner, or something" because it began it all again, and the story behind it."
"What are you currently working on now?"
"I do not work on one work at a time, i have roughly 7 -10 different works in all stages of creating at all times."
"Are you appearance prone? Will you be making any here (Dallas) in the near future, ya cunt?"
"I get hives when i visit there, i actually start twitching and thats not the epilepsy in me. I am a nomad, and have always had many homes across the world, when i visit you will know."
Thanks Drew.
"fanx zoe, (for everything) and where the hell is your work "ya cunt"?{This has yet to be determined}
(an)drew and his art will be at Voodoo Fest Oct 26-28th 2007