Alexander Massouras b. 1981
Bonfire, 2023
Oil on linen
12 x 10 in
30.5 x 25.4 cm
30.5 x 25.4 cm
Signed and dated on reverse
Alexander Massouras (b. 1981) is an artist from Nottingham now based in Cambridge, UK. His work is in UK and international collections including the British Museum, the V&A, the Metropolitan...
Alexander Massouras (b. 1981) is an artist from Nottingham now based in Cambridge, UK. His work is in UK and international collections including the British Museum, the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a Leverhulme Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre.
Through selective appropriation and erasure of found images, Massouras’s paintings, sculptures and prints explore the construction of the past, and the personal residues left on public memory. He uses a visual language that is simultaneously fragile and stark to question the very nature of permanence in art.
Through selective appropriation and erasure of found images, Massouras’s paintings, sculptures and prints explore the construction of the past, and the personal residues left on public memory. He uses a visual language that is simultaneously fragile and stark to question the very nature of permanence in art.
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