Alexandra Castelli
  • My Archipelago 2014-present
  • Big Tide
  • Castaneda Series, 2017-present
  • lobos de mar 2018-present
  • Apnea
  • an eye for an eye
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BIOGRAPHY

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Water is the universal medium that makes up our bodies and our environment, we all know that. We “swim” through  emotional  and psychological tides, our bodies  interacting and exchanging with the currents and energies around us.  How this affects the integrity of our inner selves is the very theme of these works:  how does my experience of the world, my very existence in it, affect and define who I am?
 
The idea of painting people under water came to me over 25 years ago: my mother had given me one of those high definition cameras with 14 gazillion pixels!  I began photographing my own kids in the pool, like any mom.  My youngest, however, categorically refused to be photographed (Amish? Masai?)   Every time I pressed the shutter (and those things had a l-o-n-g delay back then) my son would dive underwater.  I persisted.  He kept diving.
 
At the end of the day I dumped the whole lot into my laptop.  I scanned hundreds of blurred photos of splashes and pool floors, searching for a single image of my young son.  Because of the high definition, I was able to enlarge ad infinitum, and that is when I began to see my underwater images.  They were distorted, abstracted and beautiful.  The body perimeter deeply affected by watery environment, and light often drawing abstract patterns on the skin surface.   I endeavor to describe my life journey in paint.
 
In recent works the “change” induced by experience/environment has become part of the body’s own identity, no longer so much defined by outside forces.    Distortions of form, light and color once induced by the exterior world now describe a deeper, inner reality, INSIDE the body, integral to who we are.  Our bodies are now containers of experience, still navigating, still exploring, still swimming…
 


EXHIBITION LIST


ABSOLUTION

Casa del Cable, Javea, Spain    
12 December, 2020 - 14 March, 2021


installation photos:
http://artxabia.com/site/alexandra-castelli-2/
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     PIVOT2020
      Atzaro
     Santa Eulalia del Riu, Ibiza   
      4-12 Agosto 2020
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 LOBOS DE MAR, el Portalon, D'Alt Vila, Ibiza                                              22 September - 27 October, 2018

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           photo credit Cat Milton
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photo credit Cat Milton

Desde el Norte de Europa, Galerie Gaudi, Madrid                                                                            12-17 Junio 2018


JUMP IN! -- CA'S CATALA, Santa Eulalia,                                                                          Summer 2018, 11am-2pm

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Kolner Liste 2018, April 2018, Galerie Gaudi, Madrid, Spain and Koln, Germany

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LA CURVA, , Ibiza                                                                                                                      Feb13-March16, 2016

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COMPLICITY, Sa Cornucopia, Santa Gertrudis, Ibiza                                                                            Summer 2013

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IBIZA ART GUIDE EXHIBITION,  CASA COLONIAL, Ibiza                                                           October 6-27, 2011

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ALL AROUND THE ISLAND,
ARTROOM-IBIZA
Sept 23, 2011

HEAT, August 9, 2011 ARTROOM-IBIZA

YOU WILL BE HERE, June 28, 2011 ARTROOM-IBIZA

ARTCAR and POP UP, April 4, 2011, La Galeria del Elefante, Santa Gertrudis, Ibiza


LAS DOS LUNAS, August-September, 2010

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Arte: Feminino y Singular II, Namibia, Ibiza, October 2009

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Le Cicale,
Ibiza, September 2008

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