Kitchen Talk 19
rubénlöwy
Introduce yourself, list three things we need to know about you or your practice.
In my practice there seems to be no medium, only things to do. And i do them mostly in Vienna where i live and study and waste time.
What’s your creative process?
Doing nothing for a long time. Thinking while walking, showering, lying down.
Then creating quickly, like a birth.
What factors have influenced your creation?
Everyday life, small town boredom, sad sad german children tv shows, studing art history during covid and hearing a great lecture about broodthaers, david lynch, teenage fantasy books, badly written painter‘s manifestos.
How does your medium govern your artistic practice?
Whatever material or form fits. There is an idea, lingering for months, wanting to materialize. There doesn’t seem to be a need to craft a completely new form (if that even exists). Small, but integral changes or rearrangements seem to work well in bringing things across from the realm of ideas.
Thinking transformational rather than creational.
Some might say I’m lazy* — and I think that’s great.
*note on Mladen Stilinović’s Praise of Laziness
What’s a standard studio day for you?
It generally consists of not being in the studio.
What’s been on your mind lately?
The art of lying, myth, third places, new friendships, dept as concept.
How’s life outside of studio?
Catching new ideas while doing all the things one does.
Share one favorite item of yours.
The woolen sweater with a small metal duck emblem that I inherited from my grandfather and also whatever i find in my pocket after i forget it for a while.
Plans for the future?
It will come soon enough, no need to plan.
And finally, how do you like your eggs?
Sunny-side-up 🍳
Rubén Ezequiel Löwy (b. 1999) lives in Vienna and is currently completing his MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In his practice, he explores immaterial manifestations such as the history of everyday life, unresolved lies or systematic rules as new artistic material. Rubén presented his work at Parallel Vienna, das weisse haus, MQ Vienna and others.