Works

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ALEXA MEADE │ SEEING DIMENSIONS

Since her glo­bal bre­ak­th­rough in 2010, Alexa Meade has been one of the shoo­ting stars of the Ame­ri­can art scene, with exhi­bi­ti­ons and per­for­man­ces in all inter­na­tio­nal art metro­po­li­ses. Her spe­cial tech­ni­que of using acrylic paint to trans­form her models into flat, two-dimensional images of them­sel­ves, and thus to create a pain­terly inter­pre­ta­tion of them on their own sur­face, has inspi­red and fasci­na­ted people all over the world. In her sixth solo exhi­bi­tion cura­ted by the Gal­lery for Con­tem­porary Pho­to­gra­phy, Munich, 19 high­lights from the Munich exhi­bi­ti­ons from 2014, 2016 and 2018 are shown, plus four new works from the years 2017 to 2019.

14 May 2020 – 18 July 2020

Due to the cur­rent COVID-19 situa­tion, it is not pos­si­ble to hold a ver­nis­sage. Like­wise, due to the cur­rent tra­vel restric­tions, the artist can­not take part in the exhi­bi­tion per­so­nally. We kindly ask our valued cust­o­mers and fri­ends to visit the exhi­bi­tion with a face mask during nor­mal opening hours, best spread over the week. Four visi­tors are allo­wed to be in the gal­lery at the same time. All door hand­les in the gal­lery are regu­larly disinfected.

The fol­lo­wing works are pre­sen­ted in the show:

ALEXA MEADE │ SEEING DIMENSIONS

Towards the end of her stu­dies in poli­ti­cal sci­ence in 2009 Alexa Meade (* 1986, Washing­ton, D.C.) was body­pain­ting a fri­end with acrylic paint when she took a photo of him using her cell phone. On noti­cing that the image looked like a flat pain­ting she initi­ally thought the dis­play was faulty. But she soon rea­li­zed that she had dis­co­vered some­thing new and excit­ing, namely the illu­sion of making three-dimensional people and objects appear two-dimensional through her pain­ting, cap­tu­red in the pho­to­gra­phic image.
But she was also aware that this type of p­re­sen­ta­tion, which can at best be defined as illu­sio­nistic body pain­ting, chal­len­ges view­ing hab­its and lea­ves the viewer per­ple­xed — unless they are pre­pa­red to fur­ther inves­ti­gate this par­ti­cu­lar pain­ting tech­ni­que. In this respect, Alexa Meade’s art embo­dies her own aspi­ra­tion not to be satis­fied with the first impres­sion, but to shar­pen the sen­ses and to sub­ject the mecha­nisms of one’s own per­cep­tion, as well as the truth of the images, to con­tinuous scru­tiny.
Since her glo­bal bre­ak­th­rough in 2010, Alexa Meade has been one of the shoo­ting stars of the Ame­ri­can art scene, with exhi­bi­ti­ons and per­for­man­ces in all inter­na­tio­nal art metro­po­li­ses. Her spe­cial tech­ni­que of using acrylic paint to trans­form her models into flat, two-dimensional images of them­sel­ves, and thus to create a pain­terly inter­pre­ta­tion of them on their own sur­face, has inspi­red and fasci­na­ted people all over the world. Her uni­que approach has gai­ned her world­wide acclaim with exhi­bi­ti­ons in renow­ned venues, inclu­ding the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Shi­buya Cros­sing in Tokyo, the Smith­so­nian Natio­nal Por­trait Gal­lery in Washing­ton, D.C., and the United Nati­ons Buil­ding in New York City.
In her sixth solo exhi­bi­tion cura­ted by the Gal­lery for Con­tem­porary Pho­to­gra­phy, Munich, 19 high­lights from the Munich exhi­bi­ti­ons from 2014, 2016 and 2018 are shown, plus four new works from the years 2017 to 2019.