Florian Fausch, born in Zurich in 1981, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Prof. Siegfried Anzinger, whose master student he was. In his pictures we see utopian architectural landscapes with their very own laws. Places and non-places that are reflected in the picture and move with bright colors in an exciting interplay between figuration and abstraction. This creates a dynamic overall effect that merges reality and utopia. His pictures are located on the borderline between figuration and abstraction. The angular forms are reminiscent of the cutting techniques of collages or stencils used for geometric compositions. He uses the collage technique to find images, but in a contemporary form. Magazines, computer games and the Internet, with their gigantic image archives, serve the artist as a fundus. As a so-called “digital native”, he not only searches for motifs on the Internet, the electronic possibilities also serve him quite naturally as a working tool with regard to the composition of the picture, which is partly created on the computer and transferred to the canvas or paper in a further step. During the painting process, the fragments of the appropriated material are interwoven with his own ideas; reality and utopia merge to create a dynamic overall effect.

Illustration: Florian Fausch, F_2024, oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm