Simon Lehner's paintings connect ar- tistic traditions of painting and sculp- ture since the Renaissance with the next step in the development of art history into digitality and artificial in- telligence.
In his work, Lehner looks into the abysses of contemporary, Western- style masculinity. Today, it is mainly the internet that brings together men in new subcultures in which the hyper- masculine optimization of the body is celebrated. Lehner's picture draws at- tention to the suffering in this narcissi- stic hell.
