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THOMAS LAMMERS
Lives and works in San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, México
SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.thomaslammers.com
The photographic series by Thomas Lammers, entitled skin language, is itself a highly descriptive support while the wavy and intersecting lines
circumscribed in the field of what could be identified as the visual rhetoric that furrow it, are transformed into the arabesque abstraction that is
of the human body. It is possible to find in each one of the pieces that complemented and reinforced with the speculated reflection, the modular
constitute it, a certain formal analogy with the previous proposal made by division, the repetition of motives, and the distortion of the image. It is the
Peter greenaway in his film from 1996, The pillow book, because in both Non-representable, molded in his creation, not to his image, and without
of them the skin becomes a carrier of the message: it is the canvas for the resemblance, but as an interrelation and complement, as a fusion.
lines of one, and it is the page for the characters of the other. T. Lammers, in skin language, continues, in the same manner, with his
In skin language, T. Lammers plays with the dissolution of the identity even process of experimentation with different pictorial and graphic substrata
if it is the dermis, with its morphologic and anatomic peculiarities, the as well as with the eroticized handling of its contents. In this series, the
one that significantly defines the uniqueness of the individual. In an act of author presents, in simultaneous manner, the gender deconstruction by
symbolic skinning, T. Lammers transforms the skin, by a digital hardening, shading and subordinating the primary referents of the woman, and the
into a flexible membrane which is capable of containing the graphics that re-elaboration of the femininity by genitalizing the composition, arising an
in a playful trance, he has shaped in his model’s body. omnipresent sexuality, if not evident, always latent.
Due to this and bringing up that the ancient Muslim forbiddance of Line, light, and body are in skin language and in Thomas Lammers the
divinity, man, and nature has lead us to the development of calligraphy common denominator.
and geometry as unique and exalted mechanisms of aesthetic expression.
The work by T. Lammers can be described as a figurative redundancy Elizabeth Castro Regla, Skin language or the visual rhetoric of the human
because it offers a dichotomy of matter and meaning, being the skin by body. Plastic work by Thomas Lammers
sKIN LaNGUaGe 01, 2006 PHOTOgRAPHY 23x9 IN. / 60x22.5 CM. sKIN LaNGUaGe 17, 2006 PHOTOgRAPHY 23x7,5 IN. / 60x19,36 CM.
sKIN LaNGUaGe 05, 2006 PHOTOgRAPHY 23x12 IN. / 60x29.97 CM. sKIN LaNGUaGe 18, 2006 PHOTOgRAPHY 23x10 IN. / 60x25.89 CM.
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