Lars Meyer is a 22 years old German artist, living in Waltrop im Ruhrpott right now. As a surreal artist, he has created quite a lot unique and creative pieces, and we can always see great power in his works.
Q1: First of all thanks for taking the time to provide TDI with the interview. Why do you favor the style “Berliner Romantik” and “Digital surreal photorealism”? What’s special about them?
Thank you very much, I’m honored. Well, “Berliner Romantik” was a period in german lyric history, it was around 1800-1840. In that period silhouette-styles were famous. I used this particular style for my artworks “Life” and “The Werther Effect” for example. “Digital surreal Photorealism” never existed. It is a neologism I created to describe my own style, because Surrealism would not fit and also Photorealism would not fit.
Q2: We learn that your interests include poetry and psychology, do you think they affect your creations in some way? If so, in what way?
Before the visual art, there was poetry, art in written form. Before every artwork, there was a text. Psychology is important, too. When you are able to know how the human psychology works, you can use it in your art.
Q3: In your photorealism pieces, many are mixtures of the past and the present, the nature and the industrial world, the myths and the reality and etc. What is your message of this kind of artworks?
The message is that in past, the Romans or the Greek, the Egyptians, all the old civilisations knew how to build for eternity, pure stone, pure granite.They knew all they’ll left behind, all what will survive the hunting animal of time are the monumental buildings and statures. Our modern industrial world will nothing left behind. Our buildings made of steel will rust to dust. Our modern way to save data on silicon, to save information how we live, information of our way of life and who we are, all will be rotten to nothing. Mother nature and father time are working against us. So that is the reason why these sceneries like past, present, nature and industrial world are important to me.
Q4: Could you describe how your typical day is like?
Well, I’m an art student at the “Kunstakademie Düsseldorf” in Germany. So every day I travel 4 hours by a train to the University, and from 8 a.m. till 9 p.m. I’m working there as a sculptor. You see, at the moment there is not much time for digital work, but in future I won’t forget to work on that, too.
Q5. What are you working on now? Would you mind sharing your future plans with us?
As I mentioned, at the moment my focus is on working as a sculptor, but in future there will be digital surreal photorealistic works, too.
Q6. Once again, thank you very much for the interview.
Thank you very much.
