Factories and landscapes

Torsten Slama

Over the decades from 2003 to 2023, Torsten Slama's work has focused on coloured pencil drawings and paintings of factories in both forested Chinese and uninhabited planetary landscapes. For this, Slama draws on various types of factories, automobiles and settings, which can appear in different combinations. The references to retrofuturism mystify brick and concrete buildings as remnants of civilisation.
In 2007, Slama realised this idea in a spectacular outdoor sculpture in Cologne's Skulpturenpark.

 

Torsten Slama, HYDRA-Hydrierwerke mit aufsteigender Überwachungseinheit, 2008, oil on canvas, 166 x 124 cm

Torsten Slama, Medizinfabrik Schessmanweil, 2018, oil, pencil, acrylic, gouache and saliva on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
 

Torsten Slama, The Three Strategies of Huang Shigong, 2022, pencil, coloured pencil, pastel crayon and acrylic on paper, 50 x 65 cm

Torsten Slama, Dead Father Cryogenic Institute in Chinese Landscape, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 30 cm

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