ART DROPS: July 8–28

One summer. Three signatures.

Werner Pawlok, Szymon Brodziak, and Tom Baker share an instinct for the right moment — and three very different ways of holding on to it. Three short windows, three Art Drops — capturing summer not as a subject, but as an experience. Available exclusively between July 8–28.

A summer reimagined

Tom Baker has Spiderman arrive at Lake Como. A collective, an algorithm, a work that moves between worlds — and emerged from them.

A summer in color

A city in the mirror of its former splendour: Werner Pawlok opens the doors to Havana's decaying sugar palaces.

A summer in black and white

Szymon Brodziak distils a Roman moment into three frames. Staging as the sharpening of reality.

Tom Baker — "Arrival by Water"

Available for a limited time only:
July 8–13

Tom Baker is not one artist, but many: a creative collective that, together with a personified algorithm, explores the limits and possibilities of artificial intelligence. The algorithm named itself — and was, as the collective puts it, “designed to evolve.” At Lake Como, Tom Baker compresses what would otherwise never come together: pop iconography, the Italian Riva-Riviera mood, a pose drawn from the superhero canon. Tom Baker spins threads between worlds: Spiderman steps off a mahogany speedboat, mountains, villas, and water behind him. The collective works on the meta level — comic universes commenting on one another, fantasy and reality flowing into each other, creative freedom meeting technical precision.

Hand-signed and limited edition of 100. 35.4"x23.6" Two available finishes: mounted under Acrylic Glass for $549, or an Elegant Wooden ArtBox in black for $649.

Tom Baker — "Arrival by Water"

Available for a limited time only:
July 8–13

Hand-signed and limited edition of 100. 35.4"x23.6" Two available finishes: mounted under Acrylic Glass for $549, or an Elegant Wooden ArtBox in black for $649.

We selected three artists who share a rare gift: the ability to compress an entire summer into a single image. What differs are their approaches. A photographer who uncovers the hidden face of places. A leading voice of the new black-and-white generation. And an artist collective experimenting with artificial intelligence. Together they trace the full breadth of contemporary art – and show what is possible today.

LUMAS CURATORIAL TEAM

Werner Pawlok — "Solar Luz y Compostela"

Available for a limited time only:
July 8–20

Werner Pawlok takes the viewer into the heart of Havana – into the decaying sugar palaces, where the joie de vivre of the Caribbean metropolis and the spirit of bygone eras merge. In his Cuba – Expired series, he captures the morbid charm of the city and, at the same time, the vitality of its inhabitants. A lost world that lingers on in his images – bittersweet, atmospheric, full of life. Pawlok is a modern photographic explorer who has traded the sketchbook for the camera. Exhibitions alongside Warhol, Richter, Mapplethorpe, and Polke have placed him in the company of contemporary masters.

Hand-signed and limited edition of 300. 23.6"x23.6" Available in two finishes: mounted under acrylic glass for $449, or in the Floater Frame Basel in black for $549.

Werner Pawlok — "Solar Luz y Compostela"

Available for a limited time only:
July 8–20

Hand-signed and limited edition of 300. 23.6"x23.6" Available in two finishes: mounted under acrylic glass for $449, or in the Floater Frame Basel in black for $549.

Szymon Brodziak — "Gelato al Colosseo"

Available for a limited time only:
July 8–28

One of the most important voices of a new generation of black-and-white photography. Brodziak composes images like film scenes that were never shot — he treats light as a language, not a tool. In Rome, in front of the Colosseum, he distils a summer moment into three frames: a gelato, a glance, a second that cannot hold in the heat. The triptych tells what a single image could not. He is the first Polish artist to be exhibited at the Helmut Newton Foundation. Honoured as “World’s Best Black & White Campaign Photographer” in Cannes, and ranked first at the One Eyeland Award as one of the ten best black-and-white photographers worldwide.

Hand-signed and limited edition of 100. 23.6"x11.8" Available in the Hamburg frame with passe-partout: in Spessart oak black, or in Canadian maple white, for $549.

Szymon Brodziak — "Gelato al Colosseo"

Available for a limited time only:
July 8–28

Hand-signed and limited edition of 100. 23.6"x11.8" Available in the Hamburg frame with passe-partout: in Spessart oak black, or in Canadian maple white, for $549.