A new exhibition by American artist Alexander Nolan will be opening at the Galerie Bernard Ceysson in Luxembourg on 12 March 2016 at 12:00.
Alexander Nolan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1980. Today he works and lives in Brooklyn in New York. Alexander Noland draws on inspiration from visions that appear in his head. Discovering Art History in college the artist began his journey of exploring the interpretations of art and ways to paint scenes from life.
"The drawings from my imagination express my thoughts and feelings about the relationship between humour and solemnity. The images come from a narrative and personal fantasy. My drawings are a paradoxical quest for truth and cannot be arrested without humour,” said Alexander Nolan.
"These compositions can been perceived as unexpected avatars surprising to the point of hilarity, rooted in all the genre scenes accumulated throughout the centuries of art history”, Bernard Ceysson, Artistic Advisor at the Galerie Bernard Ceysson, has said of Nolan's work. "To position such works in the context of the New York scene where abstraction dominates calls for two remarks. First to see in this realism, which hardly corresponds to the accepted use of the term, a kind of 'zombie figuration' corresponding to the term 'zombie abstraction' which today attracts some philosophically inclined critics. Second, it is impossible to miss in Nolan's more or less phantasmagoric domestic scenes, an ironic reaction to the recent developments of abstract painting: an invitation to ensure, and in a quite assertive way, a true revival of those forms of American realism that have been left by the wayside."
The Alexander Nolan exhibition will be available from 12 March to 21 May 2016. The official opening will involve a brunch at noon and will be held at the Galerie Bernard Ceysson, 2, rue Wiltheim, Luxembourg.
Image: “Three Russians”, 2014, by Alexander Nolan. (Done with aquarelle on paper)
