Name

Tammo Lünemann

Profession

Artist, author

Website

tammoluenemann.com

Where are you from?

Leer, Germany – living in Cologne

Your style in 3 words?

Bland, yet bitter

Your weakness? Your strength?

Marketing, endurance

What makes you different?

Probably nothing

When did you decide to become an artist?

Aside from an early interest, I guess, I started having the guts to do so around 2008.

Do you choose your art form, or does the form choose you?

The form might develop as a necessity from each particular passion.

What do you find most fascinating about the creative process?

The bliss after putting up with the struggle only to transfer one’s ideas as precisely as possible into reality.

A few words about your favorite creation?

I honestly can’t say if I have one single favorite creation, but the novel „es schickt sich“, which I got published a couple of years ago, might have been one of the longest ongoing passion projects of mine. In that case I would argue that long-term continuity may contain deeper fulfillment.

What surprised you most about your first art shows?

How vastly attention spans can vary, making it necessary to actively lure people in.

A new project coming up or an idea you want to work on?

I am currently working on a series of larger handwritten, silkscreen printed poems and aphorisms which shall also end up in small book.

Finish the sentence „More important than my career is…“

You – the reader, all along

2024: Where are we going?

Downhill

Do you think about time as an artist?

Definitely – our limited amount of it scares me.

When the going gets tough…

It might be worth it.

Put on your future vision glasses: What direction is our generation moving in, what will our world look like in 50 years?

Probably technological improvement within social regression.

What would you do if you could change the World?

Tax the rich.

What does freedom mean when it comes to art?

Well, since there has always been great art created within boundaries, I would simply state that freedom predominantly expands the focus, which may result in a lower quantity of good art, but also enables the possibility of exceptional quality.

If the universe is everything and it’s expanding, what is it expanding into?

Why don’t we just wait here for a little while – see what happens?

Tell us about your future plans…
As I’ve already mentioned, I will keep on working on that ongoing series of calligraphic poems. Furthermore, there will be some bronze, some paint and some pumpkins.

Your city’s favorite spots?

My studio, my garden and the horse-racing track

A book that everyone should read…

I’d be careful with something everyone should anything, but I once stumbled upon a collection of travel reports from around 1920 by Victor Auburtin. This resulted in me buying all of his long-forgotten works and actually republishing one book called „einer bläst die Hirtenflöte“. By doing so, I can’t deny I’m recommending it.

Last but not least: what is your favorite Song?

Perfect Skin by Lloyd Cole And The Commotions is at least a song I have heard hundreds of time and will probably do so again.

One last statement please: „Wood or stone, gold or art?“

Wood, stone, gold and art.

Your #…?

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