In the center of my artistic work lies the exploration of human perception. While in modernity the mantra of needing to change perspectives was incessantly preached, in the age of digital image overload, the act of seeing is in danger of being entirely lost. The challenge of 21st-century art is to teach people how to see again.
THOMAS MICHEL
CONTEMPORARY ART
GALLERY
Art and design, for me, are not contradictions but rather different languages of the same creative source – the desire for form. In this pursuit, I am always seeking new design challenges that expand my range of expressive possibilities because repeating myself would mean artistic stagnation. Only through dialogue with various techniques and technologies am I able to continually question and evolve my work. Yet, one thing remains constant regardless of the medium I express myself in: my demand for precision, clarity, reduction, and psychological depth.
The starting point of an image-making process for me is always the bridge between history and innovative technologies in art. That’s why I juxtapose classical craftsmanship techniques, such as Renaissance painting, with contemporary media and their consumption. Whether it’s AI or 3D modeling, the latest imaging technologies serve me to question traditional craft techniques and, conversely, to examine the risks of current future technologies, with the aim of conveying a social and political message beyond mere aesthetic perception.
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