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A lot of things come to mind with post modernistic arts, ranging from a digital aspect to extraordinary works like using real people’s skin to alter a doll’s photograph as Andreas Scholz portrays.
In his studio in Temple Bar Street, Co. Dublin, Andreas Scholz is showing me his fascinating work, one of which was the “Baking Barbie”. He says he never saw anything like it until he made it. “The idea is that you bake the Barbie in the oven, I don’t recommend this because it’s toxic. So when you bake it, it looks like Francis bacon’s [Anglo-Irish painter] distorted portraits of people.”
In a more diverse piece, he shows me a picture of Croke Park Stadium. The appeal was confusing at first because this stadium is real and he went to the stadium to take this photograph. But attending to more detail, it was made to look like a cartoon scene. Everybody and everything in the photograph looked like toys.
Andreas, at 21, had his first lesson about Photography in Germany where his tutor told him that he would never be a photographer. He then took up the challenge to prove her wrong. He made photography his career by taking the course in DIT and graduating with First Class Honors in 2009.
Andreas’ first work published was the ‘Blackrock Baths’ in the Irish Times in 2007. And again he experienced the enviousness of another tutor who didn’t inform him about it until weeks after it was published. “I don’t think she likes me” he says. “I legged it down to the national archives to find my photograph. At the time, one couldn’t go into the archives because there was no [computer] records.”
Born in 1981, Andreas moved to Ireland eight years ago from Germany where he grew up. He grew up dreaming to be “president of the united environmental agency”. “I thought something like that would exist. I love nature and want to help preserve it” he says.
Aiming to confuse people who take a first glance at Andreas’ work is not his only area of expertise. He is also into commercial photography and he works with models as well as people who like to be photographed. His work portrays sensuality. He shows me another piece of a father and his son, staring at themselves, naked.
Andreas is on the rise through current artistic developments. No doubt his work will be in the main stream in the coming years.
