Harald Seiwert • Photographer • Photoshop- & 3D Artist

"His imagination brims with bright ideas. Manipulating photographs with Photoshop he creates startling and challenging images that are sometimes witty, sometimes provocative, and sometimes downright outrageous."

Stewart Hardman, Adonis Art Gallery (London), 2004

 

Artist Harald Seiwert has been working digitally since the first days of "Bryce" (3D software) in 1995, challenging the then-held conceit that ‘computer art’ wasn’t art at all. Through his work, and the work of other artists like him, the keyboard and mouse are now accepted as legitimate tools alongside the traditional brush or pen. 

From his “Inspired by…” series, in which he plays with classical and modern icons, to his landscapes and cityscapes, Seiwert is by turns playful, irritating, erotic... and sometimes challenging. Raising questions about gender-identity, he invites us to consider: why is it considered cool or erotic when a woman plays a man's role (as Marlene Dietrich did so successfully), but funny, often grotesque, when a man plays a woman's role? His landscapes and cityscapes offer us a view into a world where anything is possible, and everything is edged with a magical touch. 

Donna DuCarme, Treehouse Gallery (Amsterdam), 2010