Zio Ziegler
Six Trees
"Painting is my attempt at processing and synthesizing the stories and information I’ve become curious about. Human beings advance by looking at things from different perspectives and by changing the way in which they look at themselves."
— Zio Ziegler
In the pivotal moment of human history we now inhabit—marked by instant and constant access to overwhelming and overlapping information, driven by high-speed digital technology, virtuality, and above all, artificial intelligence—Ziegler’s motivation is to get as close as possible to the true essence of life. He does so through relentless experimentation and an intuitive, day-by-day practice rooted in humility. Rather than rely on safe, repeatable formulas, he prefers to take risks and keep pushing his work forward.
— Valentina Locatelli, Writer and Curator
Zio Ziegler is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist whose practice centers on the distillation, reconstruction, and evolution of forms. Working across multiple modes of expression, he develops an organic process in which each body of work grows, simplifies and eventually merges into a broader visual vocabulary. From this ever-expanding universe of symbols, figures and allegories, Ziegler constructs a worldview that challenges conventions, explores biological instincts and experiments with shifting perceptions of space and time.
