2024 was the 250th birthday of the painter Caspar David Friedrich. To mark this occasion, we collaboratively developed the work ROMANTISIZER in 2024.

The Romantics warned us about the desecration of the world and our loss of this connection with it. Today, we are becoming more romantic than ever. Because the transfigured look back at nature, which we have irretrievably lost, unleashes in us a growing longing for intact nature.

We are continuing CDF's work. To do so, we have neither intact nature nor an irrepressible belief in God, miracles or ourselves as the greatest creature on earth. We make use of his aesthetics, synthesizing methods and current images of our world. The perception of the changed situation of our nature is symbolized by the purified viewer in every picture.

The ambivalent scenes can depict beautiful sunsets as well as raging natural disasters. Here, the viewers reflect themselves.

We enter into dialog with the AI in a variety of ways. In the first step, we fed the AI with our observations and created 1,000-fold scenarios of the world. We then used the AI to duplicate this image material 100,000 times. Finally, we let a computer paint the romantic picture and the viewer can watch this dynamic process.

The new realities do not change our romantic perception. We reproduce these

by means of contemporary illustrations with the ROMANTISIZER. If it is not interrupted, it paints romantic works forever. This makes the ROMANTISIZER the recreation of evolution that is never finished.