Oliver Stamp lives and works in Augsburg, Bavaria. He has engaged intensely with digital image processing and design programmes for more than ten years. The self-taught artist, born in 1993, celebrated his exhibition debut in Zurich in 2020. Further exhibition formats followed with first-time sales. His goal, to take up a leading position in the current global art scene with his unique and striking abstract portraits, got him to art capitals like Venice and Paris already.
Oliver Stamp’s works genesis mostly happens digitally. He estranges and manipulates the digital photograph with his forgery-proof algorithm in a set and secret sequence. In the future, he wants to create completely new faces by means of artificial intelligence. In this way, Oliver superimposes layers of information in the same way glazes are applied in classical portrait painting. Only in this case, it is the orchestration of software programmes with which Oliver produces the highly complex image.
After the transfer from the digital to the analogue panel painting, the original image file and all associated layers are deleted and irretrievably destroyed. The reproduction becomes a unique original. Because of the complexity of the many layers in the image, creating a high-resolution copy is practically impossible.
The artist offers neither setting nor clarification. Rather he invites the viewer to look inwards, endure the consequent emotions, and find what we have always been searching for. For him, art means evolving: “I desire to grow with and because of art.”