ALEXANDER WESSELY (B.1989) IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SWEDISH ~ GREEK VISUAL ARTIST WHO WORKS ACROSS ART, FILM AND PERFORMANCE TO BUILD HIS EXPRESSION WHERE SILHOUETTES AND CONTRASTS CREATE A NARRATIVE AND DRAMA.WESSELY’S WORK OFTEN MAKES REFERENCE TO HIS GREEK HERITAGE AND FEATURES HIS BRUTALIST INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD AND SUGGESTIVE VIEW OF THE HUMAN FORM. HIS UNIQUE WIDTH OF ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS INCLUDE COMPOSER JACOB MÜHLRAD (CARNEGIE HALL, BAMBERG HALL), CHOREOGRAPHER ALEXANDER EKMAN (OPERÁ NATIONAL DE PARIS, STAATSOPER BERLIN) TO ARTISTS LIKE THE WEEKND AND RIHANNA. HIS WORKS HAVE BEEN EXHIBITED, PERFORMED OR SHOWN IN OVER 20 COUNTRIES, FROM THE ROYAL DRAMATIC THEATRE IN STOCKHOLM, THE ROYAL NOBLE HALL, CF HILL, FOTOGRAFISKA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY TO MADISON SQUARE GUARDEN.
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CORPUS - A STUDY IN SCULPTING THRU PHOTOGRAPHY
EAR OF ABEL
THE WEEKND
WHITE MARBLE
2022
THE WEEKND
WHITE MARBLE
2022
CHIMI - A STUDY IN PILLARS AT THE ROYAL DRAMATIC THEATRE, DRAMATEN, 2021. SAID TO BE THE BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH. WESSELY SEES THE PILLARS TO BE PORTALS TO MORE THAN WHAT LIES BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH,
THE CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS, THESE BROKEN PILLARS REPRESENT THE IDEA OF THE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SYMMETRY OF BOTH FREQUENCIES GENERATED BY THE MUSIC AND
THE PLACEMENT OF THE PILLARS.
THE WORKS ARE MINIMAL AND REDUCTIVE, BUT ALSO MAXIMAL. NEW BRUTALISM MEETS THE IDEAS OF ANCIENT GREECE IN A SURREAL EXECUTION. THE PILLARS RESONATE WITH NEW WORK CREATED BY JACOB MÜHLRAD WITH A CLASSICAL STRING QUARTET AS THE INSTRUMENTATION. THEY ARE CONCISE, CLEAR STATEMENTS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL FORM, AUDIBLY AND VISUALLY. IT TAKES YOU TO A TRANSCENDENTAL STATE.
THE CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS, THESE BROKEN PILLARS REPRESENT THE IDEA OF THE ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SYMMETRY OF BOTH FREQUENCIES GENERATED BY THE MUSIC AND
THE PLACEMENT OF THE PILLARS.
THE WORKS ARE MINIMAL AND REDUCTIVE, BUT ALSO MAXIMAL. NEW BRUTALISM MEETS THE IDEAS OF ANCIENT GREECE IN A SURREAL EXECUTION. THE PILLARS RESONATE WITH NEW WORK CREATED BY JACOB MÜHLRAD WITH A CLASSICAL STRING QUARTET AS THE INSTRUMENTATION. THEY ARE CONCISE, CLEAR STATEMENTS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL FORM, AUDIBLY AND VISUALLY. IT TAKES YOU TO A TRANSCENDENTAL STATE.
CONCRETO - ILLUSION OF WEIGHTLESSNESS
COACHELLA (THE WEEKND & SHM)
CONCRETE & STEEL
14 X 14 M
2022
COACHELLA (THE WEEKND & SHM)
CONCRETE & STEEL
14 X 14 M
2022
CFHILL, TIME INSTALLATION, 2019. KNOWN FOR PUSHING THE TECHNICAL BOUNDARIES AND WORKING WITH CONTRASTING MATERIALS WESSELY HAVE CREATED A VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF COMPOSER JACOB MÜHLRAD’S MUSICAL PIECE ’TIME’ USING PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE AND FILM TO VISUALIZE INFINITY. TIME (2018) DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF COMMUNICATION, BY MEANS OF THE STORY OF THE TOWER OF BABEL, OF WHICH JACOB SAYS THAT “IT IS A POWERFUL METAPHOR, NOT LEAST IN OUR PRESENT TIME, WHEN DISCUSSIONS TRANSCENDING NATIONAL BORDERS ARE SO VITAL.”THE WORK BEGINS WITH AN ADAPTATION OF WORDS FROM PSALM 19:
