Merzmensch - Wizard

From the series: HalluciNation
Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and edition numbered by the artist on a separate label.

MERZMENSCH – Wizard

With Wizard, Merzmensch conjures a surreal vision of control, chaos, and artificial divination. At the center of the composition is a masked figure in a sharply tailored coral-red suit trimmed with metallic spikes like a modern-day shaman connected to an invisible network of time. Around him swirl discs, clocks, and dials—symbols of measurement and destiny—connected by red threads that radiate like a geometric ritual.

Is this figure a magician, a manipulator, or a prisoner of his own system? The title, "Wizard," suggests mastery of the invisible, but the image challenges this assumption. Time appears fragmented and unstable, spinning in all directions and resisting any attempt to control it. The figure's performative gesture—outstretched arms, straight back—evokes the theatricality of power, but also its burden.

Part of the HalluciNation series, this work continues Merzmensch's exploration of perception, memory, and reality in a digitally constructed world. The AI-generated image mimics the logic of dreams—precise, symbolic, and slightly disturbing. It plays with the aesthetics of ritual, calculation, and psychological spectacle, inviting the viewer to decipher the meaning or surrender to the hallucination.

This work is not only visual, but also conceptual alchemy – an interface where magic meets mechanism.