Alexandre Arrechea | CORNER SOUTH

53 x 53 inches | Swarovski Cristals, 3D printing technolgy by LITO

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ABOUT ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA

Arrechea received a BFA, from Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in 1994 (Havana, Cuba. He has had individual exhibitions at institutions such as Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Havana, Cuba, PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, and the New Museum in New York, among many others. His work can be found at collections such as Museo Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Reina Sofia, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA; Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA; Mudam, Luxemburg. Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst. Aachen, Germany; Daros Collection. Zurich, Switzerland.

ARTIST STATEMENT ABOUT THIS PIECE

The idea of these precious masks builds directly upon previous work that I created in Cuba. In Havana, I was constantly taking photos of the city’s different corners—aged façades that were exposed to bright light or set deep in the shadows. After I built up a vast collection of photos, I began to combine portions of the different photos to compose my masks. That process of creating entirely new images from a series of unconnected city details reflected a concept that has always fascinated me—that of generating completely new meanings via the assemblage of many different fragments. So, for this project, I’ve returned to that original inspiration, selecting an array of Villa Balmain architectural pieces and tying them to the many journeys of the garden’s bees—and those bees eventually assemble this entirely new bejeweled image from that series of fragmented perspectives of the Villa Balmain.

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