The Bones of Chuang Tzu
About the Artist
In 2006 his autobiography One Train Later was released to great success and was voted the number one music book of the year in the UK. The film Can’t Stand Losing You based on the book had a theatrical release in the US by Cinema Libre in March 2015. The DVD of the film was released on July 14th 2015, along with Andy’s latest CD – Metal Dog. Since that time he has recorded two more CDs Triboluminesence and Harmonics of the Night.
Recent photography exhibitions include A Certain Strangeness at the Pavillion Populaire in Montpelier, France where it broke all attendance records, followed by a six month run at the Bonnafanten Museum, Maastricht in the Netherlands. The travelling exhibition was also seen at Leica galleries in London, Hamburg, Munich, Paris New York and Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany.
Leica Camera and Fender Guitars collaborated in 2017 to make limited editions in matching designs of a Leica M camera and an Andy Summers Signature Stratocaster, re-named the ‘Monocaster’ to reflect the decoration of the guitar with Andy’s black and white photographs.
Rocket 88 Books in the UK published a book of his short stories – Fretted and Moaning in 2021.
In 2023 Andy returned to Brazil with singer /bass player Rodrigo Santos of Red Baron (Barao Vermelho) and Joao Barone of the Paralamas do Succeso in their trio, Call the Police, who play to sold out performance in South America. He has recorded The Police hit Bring on the Night with the Italian guitar group Forty Fingers and has recently released an instrumental version of Roxanne, the world wide hit of The Police.
Andy is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Guitar Player Hall of Fame, has the keys to New York City and has been awarded the Chevalier De L’Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture in France.
Beginning in late July of this year 2023 Andy will tour in the US and Candad with his multi-media show, The Cracked Lens and a Missing String.
The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco is excited to announce upcoming events to open its next exhibition The Bones of Chuang Tzu by Andy Summers. The series, Summers interpretation of China, is to be published in an upcoming book by Steidl (2018). With the announcement of his exhibition at Leica Store San Francisco, Andy Summers is now touring the world and will be performing at The Palace of Fine Arts for his one man show in celebration of the release of his latest album, Triboluminescence. He will be performing his guitar solo against a backdrop of a multimedia show featuring the same work from The Bones of Chuang Tzu.
Andy Summers rose to fame in the 1970’s and 1980’s as the guitarist of the legendary award-winning band The Police and his innovative guitar sound was a key element of the band’s popularity. When talking about the connection between his career in music and its influence in photography, he states, “The qualities I am looking for are musical. That is the condition. You think of music in terms of harmony, line, shape, volume, quietness, dynamics… I think all of those terms can be translated into photography.”
