Friedrich Kunath

Friedrich Kunath

Chemnitz, Germany, 1974

Lives and works in Los Angeles

Friedrich Kunath works in a wide range of media, integrating a highly descriptive visual language into his paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and videos. His work is influenced by popular culture, art history, and his adopted city of Los Angeles. Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization, and abstraction, interrogating the oppositional relationships that propel emotional experience. Within his work, images and objects build upon themselves in a layered stream of consciousness driven by the autobiographical, the conceptual, and the emotional. Both vibrant and mundane, irony and melancholy coalesce with his version of “sad optimism,” and nostalgia wanders between past and future. Together, disparate yet individually familiar elements propose a kaleidoscopic view of somewhere between dreamscape and reality

I was thinking about what a friend had said, I was hoping it was a lie

Fuck it, I love you

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