A short vacation trip in 5 pictures
Summer in the City A small holiday journey in five images
In the midst of the city’s rhythm, a window opens onto the wide beyond: Summer in the City invites you on a visual summer journey in five stages – from abstract idea to concrete memory.
Pierre Haubensak’s Untitled (Tetras 62) begins the journey with bold fields of colour – red, blue, white – evoking the French tricolour. A symbolic prologue that conjures thoughts of summer in southern France – of light, structure, and cultural resonance.
Slawomir Elsner’s coloured pencil scene Au Café (after Paul Cézanne) takes us straight into a Parisian street café – a vibrant crowd, blurred like a memory, warm like a summer afternoon in the city. His large-format watercolour Just Watercolors (159) conveys the drama of a sky gathering in density: from clear blue to deep violet, like the play of colours between sunset and an approaching storm.
Koka Ramishvili’s Land drifts by like a landscape seen from a moving train at dusk – a moment of stillness between places, between arrival and departure.
Not Vital’s (Mongolian) Cow Dung ends the journey with laconic wit and poetic grounding – a distant echo from the steppe, at once earthy and abstract.
Five works, five perspectives – Summer in the City transforms the storefront into a quiet journey through inner and outer landscapes. No suitcase required.