Gauthier lives and works in Zurich and frequently spends time in Berlin. With a background in physics and a PhD in computer science, he has spent many years as an engineer and entrepreneur within innovative think tanks. He delights in exploring abstractions and models in unconventional, upside-down ways. Listening to and performing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach fuels his inspiration and energy for his Fibonacci Art.
His Fibonacci Art has its roots in the Fibonacci number sequence. As with other constructive, concrete, and conceptual art areas, this poses a constraint on his work—perhaps even a straitjacket. However, he considers it a straitjacket in the way straitjackets were straitjackets for Harry Houdini. In other words, the Fibonacci constraint, for him, is much like metre in poetry: it allows him to create poems for the eyes.
Gauthier's ambition is to use light, colors, forms, arrangements, space, and substrate to a point where one does not need to appreciate or understand the mathematics behind an artwork to find the beauty and harmony in it. In his artworks, he strives for clarity, lightness, and reduction.
