Biography

Born in 1998 in Altstätten, Switzerland, Gian-Franco Mazzola studied at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK in Zürich from 2018 - 2021 and made his Master’s degree in Art Education at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst HGK-FHNW from 2021 - 2024.
He lives and works in Zürich Switzerland and teaches Art in different Swiss Schools.

His artistic work is an expression of personal impressions, thoughts and aesthetic experiences from everyday life. He links these individual perceptions with social issues - especially in the field of tension between interpersonal relationships, cultural context and our relationship with nature.
Sweeping lines and moving forms characterize his visual language. They visually pick up on the organic dynamics of nature and at the same time reflect the complexity of a world in which everything is interconnected - in exchange, in change, in balance or in conflict. In this field of tension, he searches for moments of beauty that are not only revealed in the aesthetic, but also in the processual, the fragmentary and the contradictory.