Anton Hasler
A Swiss artist inspired by Mediterranean myths and symbols.
Anton Hasler (b. 1988, Switzerland) develops an animistic pictorial language inhabited by hybrid figures ; at once human, spectral and allegorical ; suspended within liminal terrains where dream and reality converge. His compositions unfold as symbolic ecosystems, dense with iconographic fragments and subtle citations drawn from art history, assembled through a consciously syncretic methodology.
Hasler’s practice operates at the intersection of mediums. Airbrush gradients and digital drawing converge with oil painting and processes such as digital printing, generating surfaces that oscillate between the tactile and the immaterial. This productive tension between material presence and virtual construction situates his work within a distinctly hybrid, post-digital aesthetic.
THE SOUL OF THE GESTURE
In his artistic practice, Anton Hasler explores attention, intention, and gesture as the fundamental pillars of the creative process, championing craftsmanship as a profound art form in its own right. In response to the rise of generative AI, which he views as a force that diminishes our creative and cognitive faculties, his work serves as a reaffirmation of our connection to the living world, a bond that has become increasingly obscured.
A LEXICON FOR A FRAGMENTED WORLD
Hasler’s methodology is built upon a stratified construction, both technical and pictorial, where each layer represents a distinct level of consciousness and language. Drawing from a personal lexicon shaped by literature, travel, and lived experience, every form becomes a vessel for meaning, simultaneously intimate and universal, in an effort to restore coherence to a fragmented world.
LIVING MYTHOLOGIES
Here, mythologies are not treated as relics of the past, but as living frameworks of meaning capable of guiding values and behavior amidst our current ecological and spiritual crises. Hasler delves into the symbolic dimension of the vase, envisioning it as a tangible manifestation of life, fertility and protection. As an heir to ancient cults tied to nature’s cycles, the vase embodies a discreet, domestic mythology, bridging the gap between ancestral tradition and contemporary expression.
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