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Interview with Warren Neidich, Artist

By Oliver Spies

xymara.com:
If you could imagine a miracle color — your personal dream paint — what kind of color/ink/paint would that be?

Neidich:
My color would be the color of the midnight sun seen from the planet nestros in the galaxy 5112-41. They say that when two lovers are standing in this midnight sun their souls leave each others body and form a communion that lasts for a lifetime. These lovers need simply to touch their left eyebrows to each others to rekindle this mystical feeling. That feeling has been described by the great Nestrian Soothsayer Talidoor the dreamer as a feeling somewhat like endless bedwetting.

xymara.com:
What kinds of special effects would you like to have? What would you like to use your special color for?

Neidich:
I would like to use this special color to make new kinds of alcoholic bevarages that glow in the day and leave a glowing in the mouth and tongue which can be exchanged through engrossing and deep tonge action shared by two or three embracing lovers.

xymara.com:
Name your personal 5 IN and OUT in colors. At the moment: which are your 5 favorites?

Neidich:
Hegelian green
Adorno red
Hockheymer gray
Benjaminian purple
Deleuzian orange

Xymara.com:
And which are your 5 personal dislikes?

Neidich:
Bergsonian yellow
Heidegarian blue
Freudian black
Foucault white and derida rose

xymara.com:
Which color would you like to use in the near future/your next project? Why?

Neidich:
I never think about what color to use. Colors are the result of my subject matter. They find me.

xymara.com:
For your work - what is more important: color or material? Why?

Neidich:
Ideas. They are weightless and create connections between things. They are in your head and last for just seconds.

xymara.com:
If you were to buy a sofa right now, what kind of color would you choose and why?

Neidich:
Black so that it would be formless in a black room and formed in a white room. I want comfort but think a couch would be beautiful out of black painted wood like a De Stijl Chair.

xymara.com:
When you have to decide on color in your work, do you follow trends?

Neidich:
I don´t want to sound cliché but when an artist begins to follow trends he is no longer an autonomous agent. He relinquishes what I consider the most important reason for making art which is too make the work of your life not that demanded by functionalist minded culture/society. As we all know the art market is going in that direction. At the end of ones life one has to look at what one has done and think that it is the work that one wanted to make. Otherwise why be an artist there are easier ways to make a living as every artist out their can appreciate.

Daily Telegraph, New York, 2004

Guardian 2, London, 2004

Source: Color Evolution Guide

This interview has been taken from the Color Evolution Guide, which is part of the Color Trend Vision project. It provides detailed background information for 31 selected colors based on their current and future trend position. With the help of photographs, taken around the world, the book guides you through the emotions, origin and affinity of the colors.