Through the tradition of collage Alexander pursues his personal obsession in creating minature narrative scenes. In the use of antique books, he believes makes his work an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia. Alexander is interested in the idea of how we construct our  own past memories from fragments of reality. He sees memory as a process that combines the wilful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious.

Before Alexander begins to work on a new piece certain boundaries are predetermined through the literature in which he uses. Through his process he aims to transform the meaning of this pre-existing material.  The encyclopedia  becomes a window into an alternate world, much like lived reality becomes its alternate in remembered experience.   These books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather Alexander sees them as a means to gain insight into our memory process.

Alexander’s book sculptures are made  by working through a book, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations while removing others. The images seen in the finished work, are left standing in their original place.

Alexander originally from Berlin, now lives and works in Bristol. He has exhibited extensively in Bristol and London as well as further afield in California. This year he exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, which has led to extensive press coverage including an interview on the BBC’s Culture Show.

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