Romance isn’t dead, at least not according to American artist and illustrator Andy Rementer. Not dead, but definitely a bit melancholy.
Despite the colourful primary colours of his collection, I Wish I Knew, which debuted recently at the Mondo Cane gallery in New York, his scenes of love are generally sad ones, filled with regret, unfulfilled wishes or unrequited desire. These interactions take place within the urban landscape of The Big Apple, and Rementer’s style creates an interesting argument between his cartoonish characters and the realism of the detail around them. Cigarette butts, smashed glass and puddles of God-knows-what amid the tenement blocks and shops create the landscape in which Rementer’s stories occur.
Rementer is something of an artistic polymath, dividing his time between drawing, cartooning, painting and animating, and we can see the influences of his other disciplines in this collection of work. Sad, but true.
