Anyone entering the picture landscapes by Thomas Summer must be prepared for audacities of aesthetic, formal and intrinsic nature. Alongside Dürer’s archangel Michael poses Homer Simpson; pansies alongside ham, biscuits next to Superman, animal skulls adjacent to ads and technical symbols, and much more. The artist’s works are packed with objects that could hardly be more different. His pictures apparently bring together, mix, disassemble and fragment everything conceivable only to rearrange them in a newly created universe. |