Mini interview via Fecal Face with Julien Langendorff. How would you describe your work to someone?
Words are tricky, I’m never sure about how to describe my work. I actually kinda suck at that.. Well, I think there are both psychedelic and gothic vibes to it. It is colourful and filled up with dark figures. People often find it mystical, poetic and mysterious. There is obviously a certain feeling that refers to magic, tales, some kind of twisted romanticism maybe.. Recently I’ve been trying to work on less narrative compositions, focusing a little more on pure shapes and patterns.
Influences? Working routine? Music? Time of day?
Black Sabbath, French director Philippe Garrel, Pre-Raphaelites, Edgar Allan Poe, Edvard Munch, haunted houses, Kenneth Anger, weird psychedelic shit, Gerhard Richter, Maya Deren, Symbolists, Only Theater Of Pain by Christian Death, Jean Rollin movies, Alice Cooper, 60′s hippie art and music posters, Ash Ra Tempel, Sol LeWitt.
There is no routine really.. Every day is new and different. I usually wake up early and enjoy starting to think and work in the morning. Some days I don’t feel like working on a piece and I play music instead, or read and watch movies. The process of making art is so great, I love being totally alone, and start a new piece, listening to a good old Stones album or Gram Parsons, smoking cigarettes.. There is some kind of a teenage feeling of freedom to it, that I think is definitely awesome.