Alek O.

Paper
23 x 30cm
Framed / Unframed
Signed and numbered edition of 3

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Abitare, 2018
Paper
23 x 30cm
Framed / Unframed
Signed and numbered edition of 3

£300

Argentinian born artist Alek O. often utilises ready-made objects and both adopts and adapts traditional methods of art making such as painting, drawing and embroidery. Transforming objects that she has found or been given – things from her personal domain or that formerly belonged to her friends or family for example – she changes their form and appearance in such a way that they seem to recall particular periods of art history, namely Minimalism and Arte Povera, and highlight, yet belie, their particular histories.

Her first edition takes an advert from the 1990s Italian design magazine Abitare, where the architect Alessandro Mendini features as a celebrity endorsement of a tiling company. The three pieces take the same advertisement three times over, and recompose all three to make new configurations – underlining the different colour and print register values between each advertisement and the magazine that they were contained within. The second edition, Abitare, is a composition made with fragments of Abitare Magazine of the 80s and 90s.

MOSTYN is a charity registered in the UK and proceeds from the sales of the editions will be invested back into the gallery's exhibition and engagement programme.

For further details about the editions by the artists or to purchase an edition, please email: [email protected]