The works of Benjamin Samuel (b. Frankfurt am Main, 1981; lives and works in Frankfurt and London) explore our reverence for the all-embracing intellectual gifts we associate with Renaissance men as well as our understanding of the modern digital world. Benjamin Samuel takes inspiration from favorites such as the movies of Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick, Bach's Goldberg Variations, and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, but also from Shakespeare's plays and Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the comic books in the Adventures of Asterix and the Adventures of Tintin series, and the stock markets....
The works of Benjamin Samuel (b. Frankfurt am Main, 1981; lives and works in Frankfurt and London) explore our reverence for the all-embracing intelle...
