Spring Break
We are pleased to present Spring Break, a solo show by Alexandre Bianchini.
© Alexandre Bianchini
Born in 1966 in Geneva, where he lives and works.
Alexandre Bianchini began his artistic studies in 1983 at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts. He remained there for three years. He continued his training at the Ecole supérieure d'arts visuels de Genève, graduating in 1991.
In 1994, he co-founded Forde, an independent contemporary art space in Geneva. He was involved in its management and artistic programming until 1996.
Alexandre Bianchini likes to use the adjective “polymorphous” to define his artistic practice. Indeed, he does not confine himself to one artistic medium, be it painting, drawing, collage, photography or video; he uses them in parallel in a search for relevance between content and expression.
Bianchini's paintings reject the illusionistic space offered by the surface of the canvas, asserting the flatness of their support; the compositions, conceived as close-ups, show only one element at a time, isolated from any context and worked with flat tints of color that confirm the pictorial field as a flat surface.
Bianchini's language is not linear, and the relationship between the elements that make up his work is always plural. His installations compress many layers of meaning that never fully reveal themselves to the viewer.
The artist delivers works that retain an element of the elusive and the insoluble. Extremely dense and kaleidoscopic, they multiply viewpoints without reconciling them. By this very fact, the artist shakes the viewer, making him doubt his own perception. In a way, Alexandre Bianchini's work reminds us of the relativity of every point of view and the narrowness of every belief.
-Courtesy Maryline Billod
