Robert Langenegger, born 1983 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, lives and works Manila, Philippines
If painting could return to its realist function, holding a mirror of society, Langenegger would succeed as a new fangled form of artistic chronicler, not in the realist stylings of Zola or Balzac, but following more in the steps of Baudelaire's splenetic barbs on modern life. Thus said, upon seeing Langenegger's brutal and vulgar renditions of social life, in the raw so to speak, with so many pictorial situations involving lewd sexuality coupled with psychological violence, we take his aesthetic thoughtfully as symbolic manifestations of the unconscious rendered without inhibition.
Langenegger studied Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He was shortlisted in 2008 in the Ateneo Art Awards for his show Irish Bull of the Mother and Child held at Finale art file in 2007 and was a finalist in the 2008 Sovereign Asian Art prize. In 2009, he had a solo exhibit at Talmart Galerie in Paris, France. His work has also been featured in exhibits held in Australia, Hongkong and the US. He also has taught himself the art of tattooing and the science of horticulture.