Born in 1987, Florian Zumbrunn lives and works between Paris and Tokyo. A Franco-Swiss artist at the crossroads of technological innovation and visual creation, he designs the digital tools he uses himself, developing tailor-made algorithms that function like paintbrushes. Each program is designed to capture an intention, to translate a movement, a vibration, a rhythm.
"It's not just a program. I'm developing my own digital brushes to better master movement, color and composition. It's a space between painting and code, where the tool becomes language."
His creative process begins with the writing of an original algorithm. This generates images inspired by Impressionism, through a contemporary approach to line, light and texture. This work undergoes numerous iterations, enabling the artist to refine the style and push the code towards a form of pictorial expressivity.
Once the visuals have been generated, Florian makes a rigorous selection of the works, in a deliberate curatorial approach. The selected pieces are then printed in high quality, in collaboration with a professional printer. Each work is produced on an exceptional paper, such as Arches 310g watercolors, to accurately reproduce the richness of textures and nuances.
But the work doesn't stop there. Once printed, it returns to his hands: Florian reworks each piece with dry pastels, oil sticks and pigments. This manual gesture extends the digital work, creating a sensitive bridge between screen and material, between calculation and intuition.
This constant to-and-fro between technology and craft, between digital abstraction and physical intervention, is where Florian Zumbrunn's singular language unfolds. His works give rise to mental, poetic, almost familiar landscapes: imagined forests, silent lakes, memories of autumn light. Not to reproduce reality, but to invite us into another, delicate and introspective space.
His work has been exhibited in London, Tokyo, Milan and Paris, and recently led to a collaboration with the Hennessy cognac house, widely acclaimed by the press.
Each work by Florian Zumbrunn is the culmination of an exceptional process, where the rigor of algorithmic writing meets the freedom of artistic gesture, in a radically contemporary vision of impressionism and digital creation.
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.
