Jane Alexander

by Alexander, Jane

• ISBN13: 9783775711906
• ISBN10: 3775711902
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Somewhere between realism and metaphor, humanity and bestiality, South Africa and the rest of the world, Jane Alexander's sculptures give shape to the brutal, painful, tragic, bizarre, incomprehensible, and fragile existence of her multicultural society--and, to a lesser extent, others. Existening in a no-man's-land where the difference between victim and perpetrator is blurred and meaningless, her life-size figures, made from fiberglass, wood, clay, and found objects, sometimes dressed as people do, sometimes naked as people and animals are, are uncanny in their astonishing naturalism, a naturalism thwarted by bandages, animal masks, incomprehending animal eyes, and violent lacerations. This is the first extensive publication dedicated to Alexander's work.

Table of Contents

Forewords	7	(11)
Jurgen E. Schrempp
Christoph Kopke
Sibusiso M. E. Bengu
Renate Wiehager
A Turbulent Silence	11	(10)
Simon Njami
Making Invisible Relationships Visible: Jane Alexander and the Act of Sculpting	21	(8)
Akiko Miki
Works	29	(86)
Notes on Selected Artworks	115	(8)
Jane Alexander
Appendix	123
Works
Biography
Exhibitions
Bibliography