Stunning digital installations from a young Swiss artist

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The Swiss artist and sculptor Fabian Bürgy creates amazing works. His work explores the aesthetics of objects and things through an unusual collision of objects, choice of environment and situation. His virtual installations are stunning visualizations of objects in digital form.

Fabian Burgi was born in 1980 in Switzerland. The master started out as a sculptor, then worked for a long time in graphic design and studied new media technologies. His aspiration was to unite different environments, which he subsequently began to successfully engage in. For more than fifteen years of work, he tried to erase the boundaries between the real and the unreal, between aesthetics and symbolism. In recent years, he turns less and less to the physical embodiment of his ideas, completely giving preference to the digital version.

“Since 1995, I began to professionally engage in sculpture,” says Burgi, “For eight years I was exclusively engaged in sculpting - I was literally fascinated by the pliability of gypsum and the beauty of stone. One thing confused me: this environment implied too many restrictions. There is no movement in stone and plaster! There are too many physical limitations for the artist, and this slows down a lot of creative expression. So, about twelve years ago, I got into digital technology. The number offers enormous potential: literally any idea can be visualized."

The so-called “concept events” that Burghi puts on are truly stunning. Finding inspiration in the most common everyday objects, such as potholes on the roads, broken asphalt, clouds, dog tails, Burgi puts the viewer's mind to the test, creating unusual digital installations. Amazing metamorphoses and transformations take place with objects: outside the familiar environment, they are deprived of their direct purpose.

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