Bedrohliche Nähe (2024) Digital Arts by Hans-Dieter Pfundtner

Born in Munich in 1946, he has been artistically active as a self-taught artist since 1971. I love the freedom of being able to design only what interests me - analogue and digital (since 2020). My head is the creative pool in which I playfully give in to my ideas and invent images without AI. Even in digital, I remain connected to the still individual image. I always work on existing artistic material - mainly paintings. For me, the curious search that takes place in this process until finally finding the idea for a new work is the essence of art. The finished work is, at best, perfect craftsmanship. Analogue and digital are just two different techniques for realizing my image inventions. Both techniques require secure mastery of all the necessary tools. In the world of AI and future advancements, it is particularly important to me that all of my digital works are intended and conceived by me exactly as I present them to the audience upon completion; The resulting image results cannot be compared with the statistical random results of an artificial intelligence. With my digital image inventions I create something constructive, something that doesn't yet exist, sometimes mischievously and ironically new. I oppose this to everything that is too serious, stuffy, even lauding and destructive in our time. Nobody has to tell me that this doesn't automatically ensure a positive mood and certainly can't prevent the many tragic social conflicts, but one can still hope.

• Nationality: GERMANY
• Date of birth : 1946
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• Groups: Contemporary German Artists