Aquatint
Media Dimensions: 101 x 70.8 cm
Image Dimensions: 90.8 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 6
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Alex R.M. Thompson’s practice combines collage sensibilities with a printmaking background to explore the precarious and constantly shifting nature of the urban environment. The works combine interiors and exteriors to describe a landscape frozen in some state of tumultuous change; towers totter skywards, harvesting components of their own foundations to drive their upward (and ultimately perilous) growth, while vast halls hold isolated monuments to deeply flawed power structures. The spaces, largely bereft of occupants, invite the viewer to explore the darkly Romantic cityscapes, winding between crumbling brick walls, through yawning arches, and into incomplete apartment blocks. Within these architectural remnants, questions of climate, political upheaval, and resource consumption linger in the challenging tension between beauty and destruction. Alongside his prints, which exploit the rich tonality and malleable surface of copperplate etching, Thompson creates installations that rely on viewer activation. This includes projections that reshape themselves based on the presence of an audience, or toy components that viewers can actively reconfigure. In these works, he aspires to enable moments of realization and recontextualization, in which individuals come to grips with their own agency in building the world that we all occupy.
Aquatint
Media Dimensions: 101 x 70.8 cm
Image Dimensions: 90.8 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 6
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £140.00.
Alex R.M. Thompson’s practice combines collage sensibilities with a printmaking background to explore the precarious and constantly shifting nature of the urban environment. The works combine interiors and exteriors to describe a landscape frozen in some state of tumultuous change; towers totter skywards, harvesting components of their own foundations to drive their upward (and ultimately perilous) growth, while vast halls hold isolated monuments to deeply flawed power structures. The spaces, largely bereft of occupants, invite the viewer to explore the darkly Romantic cityscapes, winding between crumbling brick walls, through yawning arches, and into incomplete apartment blocks. Within these architectural remnants, questions of climate, political upheaval, and resource consumption linger in the challenging tension between beauty and destruction. Alongside his prints, which exploit the rich tonality and malleable surface of copperplate etching, Thompson creates installations that rely on viewer activation. This includes projections that reshape themselves based on the presence of an audience, or toy components that viewers can actively reconfigure. In these works, he aspires to enable moments of realization and recontextualization, in which individuals come to grips with their own agency in building the world that we all occupy.
