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"Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973)[1] is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, author and occasional actor. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Spring Breakers, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. His film Trash Humpers premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at CPH:DOX in November 2009. His most recent film Spring Breakers was released in 2013." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Korine
He has spent 20 years making lurid, provocative films like Kids, Gummo and Spring Breakers. Now Harmony Korine is trying to do the same with oil painting. The enfant terrible talks fatherhood, crack addiction, and getting beaten up for laughs....
“I’ve never had an easy time making movies. It’s always been like warfare.”
And so for the last few months Korine has been painting in his Nashville warehouse – seven-foot psychedelic orbs on canvases that now stretch along the walls of London’s Gagosian gallery, where we meet. They’re as discombobulating and druggy as anything he’s made – contrived to look and feel like a vibrating high. Korine sits in front of one as we talk. After 10 minutes, I have to switch seats because his head starts pulsating in my eyeline.
“With the artworks there’s a kind of physical elevation and energy. That was what attracted me to drugs. I liked transcending the body, floating, chasing oblivion. It was nuts and, as everyone knows, it takes an extreme toll.” http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/24/harmony-korines-art-rehab undefined