Andreas Reimann

“Carolina Dreaming”

I started painting in the United States of America. 1983, after graduating from high school, I left Austria and went to South Carolina, Hilton Head Island. I had just started to study economics in Vienna, but I did not like it. So instead of listening to dull lectures, I worked in restaurants at the seaside as waiter, barkeeper or dishwasher. During winter, when there was not much to do in off-season, I started painting.

Andreas Reimann is a collector: the artist absorbs his environment carefully, recreates it and starts interpreting. Pop culture from all directions, aesthetic advertising, alienation – Reimann remixes his material like a DJ, he uses samples and brings icons into a new context.