Dreamt of in childhood, a great golden sun with an unhappy face in its center – the mask of Louis XIV. Seen at the age of 8, never forgotten, this work occupied the artist from childhood until 2016. It had many incarnations: the Victory series, Shields of Achilles, and finally Wrestling with Angels. All of the works were based on a model the artist made in 2000 of a golden flaming sun, with his own childlike face looking out from its center, looking absolutely lost and forgotten. Some of the most successful versions were the Shields of Achilles series, screen printed in oil paint; the dots seem to emphasise the weightless pixilation of history, rather than the weight of history,
Exhibited:
Mark Alexander Wrestling with Angels, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin 2016
Wrestling with Edges, Frame Blog : Interview with Mark Alexander
