Clemens Maurer's AI Art Series Explores Visual Authority and Plasticity

Clemens Maurer's series 'Art is Art is Art' is featured in creAtIva AI Art Book Vol/9, curated by Wiktor V/R, founder and director of creAtIva. The work challenges superficial debates about AI-generated art, asserting a mature visual consciousness and recognizable authorship. Maurer transforms contemporary tools into a language, addressing tensions around intention, decision, and aesthetic responsibility in an era of visual overproduction and automation. His practice is noted for its plasticity—organizing images with surgical clarity while maintaining poetic intensity. The series integrates abstracted bodies, faces, objects, and spaces into a unified visual structure where the body becomes a surface of transit between the visible, the thought, and the imagined. Maurer's deep knowledge of art history, editorial design, photography, surrealism, and contemporary image construction is evident; his iconography includes frames, televisions, clouds, birds, spatial cutouts, minimal architectures, and impossible openings. Critics draw parallels to René Magritte's displacement of the recognizable and Tarsem Singh's 'The Cell' for transforming scenes into mental architecture. The work is presented in Vol/9 alongside voice narrative and augmented reality video. The text was reviewed using AI tools.