Stefan Saalfeld is fascinated by the synthesis of drawing, painting and generative software art. He combines digital techniques with many years of painting experience to produce a vibrant stream of images. Using the computer, he generates…
Stefan Saalfeld is fascinated by the synthesis of drawing, painting and generative software art. He combines digital techniques with many years of painting experience to produce a vibrant stream of images. Using the computer, he generates compositions of dense colour lines that overlap, or run alongside one another. Refined breaks in the horizontal lines appear like digital sound waves with stop and search systems. Some works comprise up to forty individual layers. Mythical creatures and figures jump between these layers like chimeras between pop art and post modernism that might have just come out of from a time machine.
As a clever final touch, Saalfeld adds something otherwise lacking in digital images: a patina, grunge, the wear and tear of life. The otherwise sterile and blemish-free works are given a vintage look, lending them romance and honesty. The artist achieves this authenticity by overlaying different elements, texts and patterns, in multiple levels. What emerges is a digital painting that far exceeds the boundaries of analogue imagery and amazes us with its remarkable detail. It is this combination of technological elements and organic shapes that makes Saalfeld’s images such exciting discoveries.
Christina Wendenburg
VITA
1962
Born in Ingolstadt, Germany
1982-1986
Apprenticeship in Cabinet making, Munich, Germany
1987-1993
Studied Interior Design at Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany
1986
Began painting
1993-1999
Freelancer in various architecture and design offices in Munich and Berlin, Germany
2005
Began working with digital art
Lives and works in Munich
Exhibitions
1996 Galerie Waskowiak, Berlin
2006 Galerie art-ig, Munich
2011 Stefan Saalfeld Showroom, Munich
2012 84 GHz, Munich
2013 The Wand, Berlin: „Laughing in the Mechanism
BIG DATA ART, Munich
2014 UP&COMING, London, inaugural group show by Kids of Dada, March 2014
LUMAS, Frankfurt/M, „JUMP“
2016 UNPAINTED, Munich
2020 HIDE:SEEK; bei Kroher/Strobel, Munich (MCBW)
2021 SUB TAI Galerie, Berlin „48 h Neukölln“
2022 Haus der Kunst München, „Off shore“, 15 min famous
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About Stefan SaalfeldStefan Saalfeld is fascinated by the synthesis of drawing, painting and generative software art. He combines digital techniques with many years of painting experience to produce a vibrant stream of images. Using the computer, he generates…