Manuel Tozzi, Dürers Rhinoceros (2026, animated) or the Imagination of the thousand Kids, Kunstformen Obertrum. © Helena Kalleitner

The project combines analog drawing, animation, and AI-assisted image analysis and was created in collaboration with people between the ages of six and 99 in Salzburg, Vienna, and Berlin. Through various workshops and collaborations, a total of 1,220 individual drawings have been created since the fall of 2025. Each person created a single image in pencil based on their own ideas. Among the participating institutions were HTL Salzburg, VHS Eugendorf, the Max Bill School in Berlin, the Berlin-Weißensee Senior Center, the Schmiede Hallein, as well as many friends and their friends. The result playfully brings to life an icon of European visual culture — Dürer’s Rhinoceros.

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Manuel Tozzi (born 1994 in Salzburg, Austria) works in Berlin and Salzburg. He is a visual artist who makes kinetic sculptures, computer animations and drawings using time-based media. In 2020, Tozzi graduated with a BFA in Film and Animation from the Berliner Technischen Kunsthochschule. In the same year, he gave a lecture on digital fashion design at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. He is currently studying sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. His recent group exhibitions have been at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunstverein Salzburg, the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich and the Eigenheim Galerie Berlin. In January 2025, his solo exhibition „was immer war ist“ was on display at Galerie Met in Berlin, Germany. He has been artist in residence at the Salzburg Summer Academy and the Kara Agora Art and Research Center.