![]() ![]() Are the two of you working on anything together? Gucci Mane, who was in Spring Breakers, was released from prison earlier this year. Maybe you could make a movie about your own painting being stolen.ĭid they have a getaway car? Or what did they do? Given that Jared Kushner owns the building, there seems to be something especially mischievous about the crime. But I thought that was pretty spectacular. When I heard about that, I thought, it almost seems easier to forge the painting. I don’t know how someone stole a 102-inch painting from the Puck Building. That was a pretty big painting, so it seems difficult to pull off something like that nowadays. I have to admit that when I heard that, I started cracking up. What does it feel like to be a painter whose work has been stolen? One of your paintings was stolen from the lobby of the Puck Building last November. At some point it all just becomes noise and then you want to step back and live a real life. I never really engaged too much with social media. But at some point, it stopped being so interesting. You still use it, to find directions to a restaurant, or to read the news or something. I feel like it hit a point a couple years ago where there was a plateau. So this idea of regionalism is something that is more pre-internet, and it’s wrapped up in the kind of romantic vision of what it was.Īre you interested in the internet? Does it have any influence on your paintings or your films? As soon as everyone heard how everyone sounded when they spoke, everyone tried to change their voice to that one thing. As soon as everyone saw how everyone else lived, they all wanted to become the same. I guess there are certain artists who are connected by a type of geography, and maybe youth experience, but I don’t know-past that I’m not sure what that means anymore.ĭo you think that’s because of the internet? Whereas now, you feel like that’s mostly gone-at least I feel like it’s mostly gone. At a certain point, there were connotations and there were specific meanings, and culture, and language. If you’re consciously thinking of what the South is and what the South means, I think it’s something where you’re looking towards the past. Living in Nashville, I don’t really know, it’s something different than it was because now I just feel like the world is becoming the same. Now I don’t really even know what it means. Back when everyone was wearing Bone Thugs-n-Harmony T-shirts and listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd. And actually, when people in the South were more isolated and then they first started seeing imagery on TV, that was an interesting kind of transitional moment. Because I think once that happened, the regionalism kind of began to melt and become something else. Korine: To me, that was more interesting before people got satellite dishes in Appalachia. Is the South, as a region, somehow important to your work? Andrew Marzoni, who filed a dispatch from the Atlanta Biennial for these pages, talked with Korine about directing Rihanna music videos, the legacy of Kids, and how one of his paintings was mysteriously stolen from the Puck Building in SoHo.ĪRTnews: You live in Nashville, and a lot of your films are set in the South. He is also an artist who has had solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, and his work was exhibited in this summer’s Atlanta Biennial. His 2013 film Spring Breakers was recently named, in a comprehensive BBC poll, one of the top 100 films of the century. Harmony Korine wrote the script for Larry Clark’s Kids at the age of 19, and then went on to write and direct films such as Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Mister Lonely. ![]()
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