The work "Hanging Tubes" refers to paintings by Salvador Dalí and Yves Tanguy and uses modern day technologies to bring "living" surrealism to digital canvases that we call screens. To the timeless nature of virtual worlds, the work „Hanging Tubes" becomes a piece of conserved eternity and places itself between classic paintings and post-digital video works.
Jonas Baumann (*1983) belongs to the first generation of artists, who made their earliest steps on digital and analog playgrounds at the same time. With his work he fathoms the gap between the tactile, analog artwork and the disembodied techno-images behind the smooth glass of our computer screen...
More details