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Since
the late 1980s, Los Angeles artist Alexander Mihaylovich has been
creating works that deal with the fragmentation of history and
memory. His most recent pieces are three-dimensional mixed media
works that allude to the ephemeral nature of our own time. The
juxtaposition of modern industrial fragments with painted Arcadian
landscapes and classical forms points to the disjointedness of
our own past as well as the complexity of understanding history
and time. The layering of found materials, such as plastic or
metal, obscures our ability to view the painted image and acts
as a metaphor for the process of archaeology. Moreover, the bar
codes and serial numbers, which are reflective of his desire to
catalogue information and preserve objects, further detaches the
object from its original context and mirrors contemporary museological
practice. Mihaylovich has exhibited widely in the United States
and Europe, including the British
Museum in London, the Romisch-Germanisches
Museum in Cologne, Germany, the National
Museum of Belgrade in Serbia, and the Royal
Museum of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium. The book titled
Alexander Mihaylovich, which is a comprehensive overview of the
artist’s work and includes over 200 images, was published
by Dumont in 2010. |