Alex Foxton / ALEX FOXTON CATALOG

This is the first collection of works by Alex Foxton, an artist from England who is currently based in Paris.
After graduating from the master's course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the author worked as a fashion designer for brands such as Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta, and Dior.
This collection of works is composed of supplementary works and long interviews centered on the seven exhibitions held to date by the author during his career as an artist. Each chapter of the exhibition also includes the research that inspired the artist, making it easier for us, the viewers, to dive deeper into the work.
Alex Foxton's paintings take traditionally fixed images, deconstruct their archetypes, and reveal their complexity and ambiguity. It explores the personal histories and humanity of heroes and mythical figures that exist in Western culture, creating new narratives by filling in gaps in the history we all know. The drawn figures are stretched, and the gentle expressions and rich bodies are torn, bent, and ecstatic, further emphasizing the tense tension that each person has. The artist removes the objective and dominant gaze narrated by these figures, reveals embodied images including accessories, and attempts to realize their desires for their bodies.
 
And in the interview at the end of the book, Foxton said about his paintings:
“I always want to be serious, and I also want to break that seriousness. If you feel that, in other words, it's not realistic, but if you feel that it's too well-balanced, too human, or too expressive, then go cartoonish. I use it to break it up.I make my hand too big, I draw the outline of my nose when I shouldn't.The same goes for colors.You choose beautiful colors that go well together, but you get bored and I have no choice but to put in things that aren't really there.I like things that shouldn't be in a painting, like kitsch elements or cartoony elements.
"Kitsch or camp*?"
It's camping, sure. But camping should be a product of chance, so I hope it doesn't become a camp too much. I know what I am doing when I apply glitter to my paintings. I know I use kitschy stuff, stuff that doesn't take itself too seriously. And enjoying it.
(*Camp is one of the terms used in aesthetics and literary criticism in the English-speaking world, and means overly exaggerated behavior and glamorous fashion with excessive decoration. Artistic expressions that consciously make use of unrefinedness and unrefinedness are also called this.In general, it has been used to express and theorize the aesthetics and values of homosexuals.)
 
Balance and imbalance, tension and relaxation, Foxton's paintings crossing boundaries are contained in this volume of 215 pages.
 
Publisher publisher: Galerie Derouillon
Publication year: 2023
Number of pages pages: 215
Size size: 315x225mm
Format format: Hardcover
language language：English
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State condition: New
First Edition of 1000 copies