Artists Information
Christian Siegenthaler explores the peripheries of surface and texture in photography and painting, and combines the two techniques. The starting point of his works is photographs of often indistinct landscapes. Landscapes in mist or drizzle, or in the half-light of dusk or dawn, show how the structures of the recognisable dissipate and blur. Siegenthaler heightens this effect by transferring the motifs onto canvas and through his pictorial interventions into the images, both in oil and as digital prints. Siegenthaler follows in the tradition of Gerhard Richter, turning photorealistic images into poetical, enchanted landscapes of great spatial depth and dreamy beauty.
Christian Siegenthaler, born in 1969 in Menziken, is a painter and art teacher. He trained at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel, in the Department of Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, and at the Scuola Lorenzo de Medici in Florence.
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| Landschaft #2 (2008) Oil on canvas |
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| Rosanasses Feld (2003) Digitalprint on canvas |
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| Landschaft #14 (2009) Oil on canvas |
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