The work of the Austrian artist Gerwald Rockenschaub has been strongly associated with the Neo-Geo movement, begun in the early 1980s by a group of young artists who focused on the formal vocabulary of the abstract avant-garde. Neo-Geo permeated the aesthetics of American Minimalism with the consumerist symbols of Pop Art, although Rockenschaub's work cannot be categorised as any one of these styles. In his animations, foil pictures, objects and site-specific installations, he refers in equal measure to ideas and positions of modernism and, in an act of radical reduction and concentration, to the scaled-down symbols of Minimalism. He is influenced by the aesthetic system of the Bauhaus, Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract cosmos and the artistic concepts of Pop, with a particular focus on abstract codes and patterns from everyday life. His work disrupts pure Minimalism through interactions with its surroundings, while his use of Plexiglas surfaces incorporate the viewer's reflection. The artist's Intarsia works, made of wood and acrylic glass, are based on a decorative technique that flourished during the Italian Renaissance, when pieces of wood veneer in different colours and shapes were applied to a flat surface to form a pattern. Similarly, his Reliefs are contemporary paraphrases of a historical technique; raised acrylic glass elements are applied to MDF surfaces to produce a concise variant of the traditional marble relief. Although he takes inspiration from classical techniques, Rockenschaub's practice is based on his advanced concept of production through his appropriation of modern technologies. He is one of the first artists to make use of a formal vocabulary that includes computer-generated graphics.