Albert Foolmoon (FR)
Last time we met someone from North of France on the blog, it wa&s the talented Johan Jaccob (from Glowsun), the interview was in french (as it was the real beginning of this blog), quickly after that, thoinking we were leaving in a global world, I decide everybody will shift to english, or, at least, globish. This is why I really want to thanx Albert for the effort he made to do the whole interview in english, as I really wanted to have him on the blog !
Oh
it will depend that
i make it...
if
i draw, it will be
quiet music as Silver Mt Zion, Do Make Say Think, Herman Dune…
If
i print
(silkscreen), it's more punk music as Dead Kennedy's, Part
Chimp, Buzzcocks.
And
if i paint, i
prefer listen The Cramps, Polysics...
Can
you tell us more
about yourself, who are you, where are you from, what do you
do?
When
did you start
drawing?
I
come from the north
of France (Lille), near the belgium frontier.
I
have no age, no
birthday, i have no face.
I
have painted during
my teenage, but after i have to prefered the drawing (because
no space to
continue the painting). And now, iI make silkscreen since 3
years ago.
And
now, with another
drawer, Ar-Déco, i have founded "Sabordage" in 2012, a
silkscreen
atelier in Lille (France). I have start a collection of
european drawers, very
disturbing.
Did
you follow any
course or did you improve by drawing in the margins of your
schoolbooks?
I
was never go to the
artschool, I did it myself. Drawing and
drawing, no need to go to
the school to make that.
I
sell in the
underground artfairs, i have my own shop online and i am in 2
galleries (Lille
and Berlin). But it's difficult to sold my stuff because it's
not nice and
cute, You need to love skull to buy my prints !
So
i make something
else to living. But i have no need to much money because i am
not a geek, and i
have the same clothes since 10 years... ahah
Are
you collaborating
with magazines/fanzines, regularly?
i
think i have
collaborated with 40-50 fanzines... Now i prefer to make my
own stuff, but if
the project is really interesting, i will work on it. I don’t
like the thema.
Where
does your
influence come from? Is there any artists/graphists you
particularly like,
what are your
influences?
My
drawing is very
precious, i draw litttle things, almost with skulls, corpses,
anatomy. Now i
add some sentences in english or in french in my
drawings.That's new. It's
probably because i make concert poster and i love the
typography by hand.
So
i am very
difficult with the works of the others artists. I can give you
3. Goya (XIXe),
Bazooka (french 70's) and Damien Deroubaix (now).
But
i love all the
strange things, i have a collection of a weird pictures,
familly pictures of
the XIXth century… i love the cabinet’s curiosity, the freaks
stuff.
i
have a big
collection of old pictures on my computer and on paper. I work
with anatomy
books, strange pictures of people, a lot of engraving. I
compose my drawing on
my computer to have a kind of idea for the realisation. After
i print that, i make
some drawings. And the other question is…
Do
you do everything
by hand or on computer?
I
begin by search
differents pictures. I have a lot and a lot, i combine them,
and i recompose to
draw all. I scan the drawing and i erase what i don’t like,
and after i print
this in silkscreen (or not if i use water ink).
How
long does it take
you to do a poster?
I
think that will be
10 hours or more. To think, try, combine, draw, scan and
print.
You
have a very
distinctive style, are you doing only what you feel like or
if tomorrow
somebody asks you an
oil painting with
horses running out of water with a sunset backdrop, is it a
problem or are you
up for it ?
WHAT ?
i don’t
understand the question. I draw only my own style. I don’t
like horse, dog or
cat, maybe with a pepper sauce… And i don’t like that somebody
ask to me
something too specific.
For
which band have
you already worked for?
Obscur
bands from
underground europe.
My
real wishes ?
Hum… i would like to draw for Part Chimp ! (and Sonic Youth as
90% of
drawers).
Do
you choose the
artists yourself?
No
and yes, i
"work" for an underground place in my town for the moment (and
one
time in Belgium). They organise a lot of concerts each week, i
choose the bands
if the music could have a signification with my drawing. I
love the dark
description of the bands, so… if it’s a rap band, i don’t feel
my drawing for
that (and we are 4 to draw for this place, so… we can choose
what we want).
The
place of the
letters for the band’s names and the others indications
(price, place…)
!!! One time i have forget the date… oups.
Do you think you
are part of a "Graphic Scene",
if so who else ?
Hum
in fact yes, but
i don’t know if because i draw. I try to be an activist in the
drawing. I have
created a famous festival of fanzines in Lille (my town, but
know in France),
and i have created too a big community since 6 years about
drawing zines (www.DIYzines.com)
with more than 1100 zines of 260 self editors, i have my own
silkscreen
atelier… so yes i hope my name is not unknown, but my drawings
are not easy to
share and… to sold i don’t tell you.
A bit of
self-promotion, take advantage of it, it's free,
where can we see your work , on the web or in real life?
I
think that my
previous answers are so eloquent… i don’t want to people think
that i have a
big head.
Two
week ago, i had
my own big exhibition in brussels and i talked with a guy
during 3 hours. He
was very
incredible,
a lot of knowledges ! It was difficult to
explain
my drawing because he loved and hated my works in the same
second. I think he
was schizophren and perhaps drunk. Ahah a good experience.
« why do you
have write –skate or die- ? it’s because DIY or die, and there
is a skull,
it’s kind a private joke ! I love that but you can’t die if
you make
skate ! »
What can we wish
you for the future?
Stop
to work in a
useless work and win my life with my passion to silkscreen and
drawings (just a
lot).
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