Torsten slama biography books

Torsten Slama suspends the rules of physics in favor of his poetic imagination. In Slama’s world, floating geometric shapes can effortlessly co-exist with modernist architecture and sci-fi landscapes. His subjects are consistently architectural and mechanical, and noticeably absent of humans. Is this utopia better off without humans, or perhaps more unsettling with their absence? Is this a post-apocalyptic world erased of humanity? One is never quite sure.

This recent suite of drawings, on view at Wystube Isebähnli, Zurich, through June 29th, expounds upon Slama’s fascination with this tension between machinery, architecture, and landscape. Sometimes the trains roll past industrial buildings, forcing the viewer to question if the isolated structures, while well-preserved, are relics of a civilization now extinct. Other times they travel through bucolic landscapes, imparting man-made steam and pollution onto the pasto Biography books on famous people!