Anton Kaestner

Anton Kaestner has developed a unique approach, working with acrylic, metallic pigments and sprays on recycled extruded plexiglass. This contemporary medium, at once smooth, shiny and fragile, offers a reflective and dynamic dimension to his works. Painting on the back of the plexiglass implies a total absence of visual control during the creative process. This voluntary constraint forces him to let himself be guided by the random and to welcome the unexpected, echoing the revelation process in photography.

This intuitive exploration gives rise to compositions rich in transparencies and mirror effects, which play with light and the surrounding space. The successive layers of paint create fluctuating depths and complex compositional values, giving each work an ascetic and meditative quality. Far from figurative conventions, his creations remain resolutely abstract, sometimes evoking the transparency and luminosity of stained glass while acting as interior mirrors.

His artistic approach rejects any manifest emotion or theoretical construction. It instead aims for an experience of being, an exploration of reality in its visible and invisible dimensions. Through a subtle play between the details perceived up close and the whole revealed from a distance, Kaestner encourages the viewer to undertake an introspective journey, inviting an expansion of consciousness.

For him, painting is a daily exercise in questioning and growth. Inspired by the words of Jean Bazaine – “Daily practice multiplies the passion to see” – he considers each canvas as a space for reflection on the human condition, an invitation to see beyond the obvious.