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THOMAs LAMMERs

Lives and works in san andrés cholula, puebla, méxico
 www.thomaslammers.com
artist contact
 info@thomaslammers.com
In skin language, T. Lammers plays with the dissolution of the identity a figurative redundancy because it offers a dichotomy of matter and
even if it is the dermis, with its morphologic and anatomic peculiarities, meaning, being the skin by itself a highly descriptive support while
the one that significantly defines the uniqueness of the individual. In an the wavy and intersecting lines that furrow it, are transformed into the
act of symbolic skinning, T. Lammers transforms the skin, by a digital arabesque abstraction that is complemented and reinforced with the
hardening, into a flexible membrane which is capable of containing speculated reflection, the modular division, the repetition of motives,
the graphics that in a playful trance, he has shaped in his model’s and the distortion of the image. It is the Non-representable, molded
body. Due to this and bringing up that the ancient Muslim forbid- in his creation, not to his image, and without resemblance, but as an
dance of divinity, man, and nature has lead us to the development interrelation and complement, as a fusion.
of calligraphy and geometry as unique and exalted mechanisms of Excerps from Skin language or the visual rhetoric of the human body
aesthetic expression. The work by T. Lammers can be described as by Elizabeth Castro Regla

sKIn LAngUAge 17
2006 PhotogrAPhy 23x7,5 in.
/ 60x19,36 cm.
sKIn LAngUAge 18 TRENDS
2006 PhotogrAPhy 23x10 in.
/ 60x25.89 cm.
sKIn LAngUAge 20
2006 PhotogrAPhy 23x9 in. /
60x22,5 cm.