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Florian Zumbrunn is a Franco-Swiss artist born in 1987, based between Paris and Tokyo. His practice is based on an idea that is seemingly simple yet radical in its execution: he writes the software he uses to paint himself. These algorithms—computer programs designed to function like paintbrushes—generate images inspired by Impressionism: line, light, texture, and atmosphere. But the work doesn’t stop at the screen.
Once the images have been generated and selected by the artist through a rigorous curation process, they are printed on exceptional paper—Arches 310g watercolor paper—in collaboration with a professional printer. Florian then works on each sheet by hand, using dry pastels, oil sticks, and pigments. This manual process extends and disrupts the digital work, creating a delicate bridge between calculation and intuition, between the algorithm and the texture of the paper.
The result evokes mental landscapes: imagined forests, silent lakes, autumn light. Not to reproduce reality, but to invite the viewer into another space—delicate and introspective.
In 2024, Florian Zumbrunn collaborated with Hennessy on the XO cuvée, a collaboration that was widely praised by the international press. His work has been exhibited in London, Tokyo, Milan, and Paris.
Florian Zumbrunn's work is in a class of its own, straddling the boundary between code and material.
The programs, which he conceives of as brushes, generate forms, accidents and visual rhythms that evoke the intuitions of Impressionism without ever imitating them. But this is only a starting point: once printed on art paper, his digital images become the medium for physical work, in which he intervenes by hand, with pastels, pigments and gestures.
Each work is born of a back-and-forth between calculated abstraction and the instinct of real gesture.
