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Florian Zumbrunn is a Franco-Swiss artist born in 1987, based between Paris and Tokyo. His practice rests on an idea that is simple in appearance and radical in its execution: he writes his own software to paint with. These algorithms, computer programs conceived as brushes, generate images inspired by Impressionism: line, light, texture, atmosphere. But the work does not end on 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 310 g watercolor paper, in collaboration with a professional printer. Florian then reworks each sheet by hand with soft pastels, oil sticks and pigments. This manual gesture extends and disrupts the digital work, creating a sensory bridge between calculation and intuition, between the algorithm and the skin 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 develops a singular body of work on the threshold between code and matter.
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.
