Jonas Baumann

Jonas Baumann

Statement

«Belonging to the first generation that made their earliest steps on digital and analog playgrounds at the same time, I feel the need not only to accept virtuality but also to locate and to capture it. With my work I fathom the gap between the tactile, analog painting and the disembodied techno-images behind the smooth glass of our computer screens. I’m interested in both the imperfection and the presence of handcrafted paintings and objects, as well as the clear, velvety coolness of digital re/productions.

To bring together diametrically opposite antipodes and unite them in a “dissonant harmony” repeatedly is the core of my incentive.

Like a researcher who collects objects and shows them at home, I enter into myself and unearth imagery, that has been deposited from the experience of seemingly incompatible opposites.»

Jonas Baumann