Wolfgang is a self-taught artist who lives in Summit, New Jersey, USA. He has experimented with different styles but focuses now on synesthesia art.
Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. For example, when a synthesist sees the color blue, it’s not just blue he/she sees but also a letter, hears a sound or experiences a taste. Every synthesist has his or her own “color alphabet”, that they cannot change as their brains are wired that way. For example, for one, the color orange stands for “E” whereas for someone else it is a “T”. And for another synthesist, it might be a different letter altogether.
Wolfgang is not a synthesist and uses Christian Faur’s color alphabet. In Wolfgang’s works letters are just shown as different colors in different shapes. Additionally, such shapes can be of different sizes, depending on how frequently a letter appears in the English language. For example, the longer a color bar, the more frequently the letter (which is represented by that color bar) appears in the English language. Click here if you want to read more about letter frequencies.
Another concept Wolfgang uses to make his art is the theory of the ”Golden Ratio”: it is the relationship from one to the other as 1:1.618.
Wolfgang’s philosophy on the relationship between artist and his/her art is: art is more important than the artist.
To contact Wolfgang, please send an email to wolfgang@wolfgangguenther.com