Art without AI: Christoph Pauschenwein's unique visual worlds

Digital art in antique frames: In his Monsters series, artist Christoph Pauschenwein combines the traditional with the unknown, the strange with the familiar. Digital aesthetics merge with elements of early modern painting. His creatures, covered in thick fur, appear to be from alien worlds and yet they are linked to human culture by wearing shoes. The Monsters are visually related to the works in the digital series Planets, which Pauschenwein is presenting together in the solo exhibition Oscillating Planets. With their enigmatic materiality, the Planets are irritating; Pauschenwein combines natural and unnatural characteristics in them. Here, too, the artist refers to old master painting with the picture frames. The exhibition opens on February 19 at the Galerie am Lindenhof in Zurich, where Pauschenwein has already had solo exhibitions in recent years, and runs until March 2.

Christoph Pauschenwein, who worked as a graphic designer for many years, is an analog and digital artist. Nature, the inspiration for his artworks, finds a naturalistic expression in his oil and acrylic paintings, from which the artist develops further analog and digital abstract images. He is fascinated by the infinite creative possibilities offered by the two art forms, which he juxtaposes. Pauschenwein's works convey the conditions of our society, in which nature and technology come together. »My works are an attempt to explore the balance between the analog and the digital«, he explains in his artist statement. For the artist, the human being as a creative force and the craft are particularly important, which is why he refrains from using AI.