 Truck Alexis Duque acrylic on canvas, 16" x 12"; $1,200 Exhibited at Village West in Slow Art Fall 2019 |
Imaginatively charting the psychological experience of space, Alexis Duque produces paintings and drawings of buildings and domestic interiors stacked and conglomerated into trippy, absurd mounds and towers. His compositions are detailed, highly organized, and meticulously architectural.
With a psychedelic precision reminiscent of M.C. Escher's, Duque uses perspectival tricks and surrealistic overlapping to render dozens of skyscrapers as a single red tower; or homes, living rooms, train tracks, and alleys as a mass on the verge of collapsing into itself like a black hole.
The wheeling bird's-eye view that he often employs recalls the Italian Futurists' soaring imagery of cities as seen from airplanes. Through his playful stacking and piling, he reorders cities to examine the formal properties of their architecture.
If you are interested in purchasing this work you can do it directly through the artist by contacting Alexis Duque or visit www.alexisduque.net.