Alexander Viscio | galerie michaela stock

Artist Statement:

Drawing from sources such as the human body, organic materials and found detritus, the work recalls processes of decomposition, decay and transformation. Their meanings however go beyond this natural order of violence and destruction to a level of intellectual dispatch that is sustained in the language we use to order, define and make sense of our lives. This is apparent by using glass to present materials in conflict and unison and presenting them as medical slides. In this manner the alchemic processes of crystallization and decomposition of form is evident, creating a transformative dynamic and exposing the performative properties in the objects.

Since 1981 the work has incorporated my own active presence in challenging the public’s awareness and relationship to space and the space they share with my work. For the most part, the sculptures are designed in association with my body size and weight where-by I am inside these sculptures operating as the mechanism that make the sculpture move in erratic behaviour, becoming vehicles for another landscape or VAL.

By exploiting the malleability of language, literary conventions and American colloquialisms are manipulated in order to consider them not only as objects themselves that can contain ulterior content in physical form but architectural structures that contain the viewer(s) as content as well.
Alexander Viscio