Who

Philippe Herzog is a self-taught artist of digital art, from France, with a rare product. Influenced mostly by Kandinsky and the Bauhaus, he has, since 1993, produced computer art works to be viewed on the screen.

Until 2004 Philippe Herzog was a commercial manager in advertising and marketing. During the same period he developed with a passion his art in which he defines himself as a minimalist: he uses as a paint brush an integrated but modified graphic software to reproduce the animations and multimedia effects of his works.

From the early geometric figures to the series playing with contrasts and color inversions, then integrating sounds, snapshots and films inspired by his travels around the world or his areas of interest, his work is always evolving and self-sustaining.

Music also plays an important role in the work of Philippe Herzog. Some pieces or composers, famous or not, from Chopin to Billy Idol through Bollywood, give their name to some of Philippe's works. Sometimes these are initially directly conceived according to sound support. Definitely an artist to be discovered.

To download the June 29, 2007 press release in pdf.

As there is a man of La Mancha, the man of the badlands (the iconoclast filmmaker Luc Moullet), Philippe Herzog defines himself as the files man aka FM: His work is designed on the computer for screens and his works are supported by computer files.

Philippe Herzog - Numeric'Art, it's also the man who walks aka DTW (Don't Talk, Walk).
While walking, he is very often reflecting to his works. On this matter, we can refer to the Rebecca Solnit's excellent book « Wanderlust : A History of Walking ».

Philippe Herzog produces digital and caustic works, whose spirit is expressed by the title.
He questions the slide show concept by associating his creations of vectorial drawings (geometrical basic figures or constructions) with his photos, films, musics, and giving the whole a suggestive title that tells a story, not where you would except. Sometimes, he uses the music of other artists, known songs that become integral part of his work.

In short, materials : multimedia presentation, philosophy : of the multiple, mania : acronymy.
Except for special cases, his works are edited in 4 versions : D F V P .
D : digital multiple, F : digital photo frame, V : video edition, P : printed edition.

To download the August 8, 2009 press release in pdf.