Hervé Graumann

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Hervé Graumann (born February 26, 1963 in Geneva ) is a Swiss digital artist .

life and work

Hervé Graumann studied at the Graduate School of Fine Arts in Geneva and graduated in 1989 with a diploma . He is a professor at the Haute école d'art et de design Genève (HEAD, formerly École supérieure des beaux-arts ).

Well-known computer projects by Hervé Graumann are:

  • Overwrite Series (since 1991)
  • Blanc sur Blanc (with Damien Blanc and Alberto Blanc, 1993)
  • Raoul Pictor cherche son style (1993-2007)
  • Shampooing douche (1994)
  • Pattern - Vanité 2b (2003)

In the project published in 1997 on the documenta X website , which deals with the fictional person Raoul Pictor , Graumann deals with the boundary between author and machine.

«Hervé Graumann does not doubt that his painting machine, which he gives a name and something to work with (ink, paper and electricity), has just created a personality that overwhelms and haunts him, even with its individuality will provoke. If Raoul Pictor was initially also the product of Hervé Graumann (didn't he write every single page of his program?), It seems that he has rubbed off on his creator in the meantime. Has the creator, the individual who creates something and expresses himself, now become a mute statement of his machines? "

- documenta X short guide

Hervé Graumann's Raoul Pictor cherche son style has now become a Swiss classic in digital art. Since 1993 you can watch the virtual painter Raoul Pictor at work (and looking for inspiration while drinking or snoozing).

Graumann has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the 3rd Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon , the documenta X in Kassel , the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Geneva) and the Kunsthalle Bern .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hervé Graumann at Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe, accessed on December 18, 2018
  2. ↑ Hervé Graumann on HEAD, accessed December 18, 2018 (French)
  3. ^ L'œuvre "Patterns" d'Hervé Graumann représente officiellement la Suisse à la 10e Biennale internationale d'art du Caire. Federal Office of Culture , December 12, 2006, accessed on December 18, 2018 (press release, French).
  4. ↑ documenta X short guide. Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8 , p. 76.
  5. ↑ Raoul Pictor Mega Painter and Inception Cam. In: artlog.net. Retrieved December 17, 2018 (English / French).
  6. ^ A day in the life of Raoul Pictor. Hervé Graumann's website, accessed December 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ Hervé Graumann. In: Sikart , accessed December 12, 2018.Template: SIKART / Lemma not specified
personal data
SURNAME Graumann, Hervé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss digital artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva