A meeting with Carl Kenz
What achievement makes you the most proud ?
To be able to do what i love, paint n create and make a living out of my art, imaginations and ideas.
Favourite Dutch food ( if you know anything of course ) ?
Now you got me on this question, does “i like your waffles” count?!
From who did you learned the most ?
The beautiful struggle called life!
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What do you really love ?
I am pretty much addicted to paint and create stuff. so i guess that’s it!
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Which museum you like to curate for 1 exhibition ?
Louvre!
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With who would you like to do a collaboration ?
Tough question, there are so many great and talented artists out there. But if i have to drop some names it’ll be Nychos, Jeff Soto, Kaws, Jeremy Fish, and the mastermind himself Ron English for sure.
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What is your biggest disappointment ?
If things doesn’t work out the way i imagined it. That’s the tricky (sometimes fun, sometimes pain in the ass) part.
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Which exhibition that you have seen, inspired you the most ?
If i would have seen a H.R.Giger exhibition, i guess it would be him!
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Who would you like to be for 1 day ?
I am kool with who i am, so i would be me. may be a invisible version of me. That would be fun…
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Rembrandt or Mondriaan and why ?
Mos definitely Rembrandt! He had great compositions and awesome depth in his works. It’s just more the kind of art i am into and interested in. I like to figure out the ways the old masters built up their works… there is a lot to discover.
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What is your best quality ?
Being late with some things sometimes but still always on time! I also think a lot about what i do, question things, and rethink after, i am a very self-critical person, but don’t know if this is a quality, is it?!
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Favourite Song ?
Tough one, but i think i got to go with a all time classic, “Nas – Nas Is Like”
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Do you have a (strange) ritual ?
Well, i don’t like even numbers, i just don’t like that simulated harmony which comes around with it but really isn’t, in my opinion. so i always try to do and paint everything in uneven numbers, which i also do unconsciously. Sometimes I wonder about myself or the outcome, sometimes i just count to make it happen that way.
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When is the last time you had to cry ?
When my grandma passed away, she was a very special person to me!
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Favourite movie
Sweet Dreams (a old school german graffiti movie, watched this one at least 1218 times), Dirty Hands, Writers, Unlike U,…
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What is your goal for this year ?
Stay healthy, being able to continue traveling, paint as much as i can, work on new Canvasses and Sculptures, meet new people, and to have a great colorful end of the year in India…