Various Small Fires, Los Angeles

Galerie Derouillon, Paris

Acquis directement auprès de cette dernière par l'actuel propriétaire

“I've often found masculinity oppressive, and painting is a way of dealing with that. For me, these characters are at the crossroads between identification, fear, desire and empathy. I think by painting them, I'm trying to paint myself within this system of power and find peace with the idea that I don't feel comfortable in it, usually by imagining that I'm subverting it.”

Alex Foxton

La peinture d'Alex Foxton reprend les images traditionnelles de la masculinité, déconstruit leurs archétypes et révèle leur complexité et leur ambiguïté. Alex Foxton explore l'histoire personnelle et l'humanité des héros ou des figures mythiques qui peuplent notre culture occidentale, peignant un nouveau récit en creux de l'histoire connue de tous. Les figures représentées sont étirées, déchirées entre un visage calme et un corps expressif, tortueux ou extatique, soulignant la tension de chaque personnage. Alex Foxton tente de se débarrasser du regard objectif et dominant qui façonne ces figures masculines viriles pour révéler une vision incarnée et laisser vivre un désir pour ces corps.

Alex Foxton’s painting takes traditional images of masculinity, deconstructs their archetypes and reveals their complexity and ambiguity. Alex Foxton explores the personal history and humanity of the heroes or mythical figures that inhabit our western culture, painting a new narrative in the hollow of the history known to all. The figures depicted are stretched, torn between a calm face and an expressive body, tortuous or ecstatic, underlining the tension of each character. Alex tries to get rid of the objective and dominant gaze that shapes these virile male figures to reveal an embodied vision and to let a desire for these bodies come to life.