TB103 (autumn), 2018 watercolour, pencil and india ink 62 x 43 in. framed: 64 3/8 x 45 3/8 in. TB103 (winter), 2018 watercolour, pencil and india ink 62 x 43 in. framed: 64 3/8 x 45 3/8 in. TB103 (spring), 2018 watercolour, pencil and india ink 62 x 43 in. framed: 64 3/8 x 45 3/8 in. TB103 (summer), 2018 watercolour, pencil and india ink 62 x 43 in. framed: 64 3/8 x 45 3/8 in. La Tour Cuisine, 2018 bronze 14 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 24 3/4 in. ed 1/3 + 2 AP La Tour Cuisine, 2018 bronze 14 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 24 3/4 in. ed 1/3 + 2 AP La Tour Cuisine, 2018 bronze 14 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 24 3/4 in. ed 1/3 + 2 AP La Tour Cuisine, 2018 bronze 14 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 24 3/4 in. ed 1/3 + 2 AP La Tour Maquette, 2018 bronze 12 x 12 x 17 3/4 in. ed 1/3 + 2 AP La Tour Maquette, 2018 bronze 12 x 12 x 17 3/4 in. ed 1/3 + 2 AP TB56, 2017 watercolor and ink on paper 21 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. framed: 23 1/8 x 16 5/8 in. TB15, 2017 paint and india ink on paper 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. framed: 18 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. TB68, 2017 india ink on paper 28 1/2 x 43 1/4 in. framed: 29 3/8 x 44 5/8 in. TB102, 2018 watercolor and inkjet on paper 7 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. framed: 8 5/8 x 15 1/2 in. Exhibition view, The Chorus, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014 Exhibition view, The Chorus, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014 Front Page, 2013, giclee and watercolour on paper, 16 3/8 x 11 1/4 in. Business, 2013, watercolour on paper, 16 3/8 x 22 1/2 in. Harry Foulbreech, 2013, bronze, silver leaf, 17 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. Bullen, 2013, bronze, 17 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. The Humans, performance, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, 2013 The Miracle (Manna from Heaven), 2013, watercolour, pencil on inkjet ultrachrome archival print, collage, 47 1/4 x 31 1/2 in. Installation view, Assembly Instructions: The Pledge, The Drawing Center, New York, 2013 Installation view, Assembly Instructions: The Pledge, The Drawing Center, New York, 2013 The School for Objects Criticized, 2010, mixed media, sound, dimensions variable The School for Objects Criticized (detail), 2010, mixed media, sound, dimensions variable Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo & Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2010, ©P.Antoine The Economist (EmoTion Chest), 2007, collage of cuts from «The Economist» on chipboard and clip-framed, 25 x 36 x 1 5/8 in. The Economist (EmoTion Chest), 2007, collage of cuts from «The Economist» on chipboard and clip-framed, 25 x 36 x 1 5/8 in.
Biography
Born in 1980 in Bordeaux, Alexandre Singh lives and works in Paris and New York.
In 2012 he was awarded the Meurice prize for Contemporary Art. His work is characterized by a protean nature, evolving between writing, performance, collage, installation and sculpture. Far from creating hermetism, all these different practices work together to constitute a complete oeuvre that questions the human nature, its genesis, its defects as well as the multiplicity of its facets. The artist’s references are just as eclectic and vast; giving birth to characters and stories indistinctively inherited from popular culture – the advertising and television world – and the classical dramatic repertoire (Molière), as well as ancient Greek comedy (Aristophanes). This assemblage of images and references evokes his early collage series The Economist (2006) and Assembly Instructions (2008-2011), series that drew their sources as much from Montaigne’s Essais as from Ikea catalogs. In 2012 he directed his first play, The Humans, developed during his residency at the Witte de With and presented at the Rotterdamse Schouwburg, as well as at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and at the 2014 Avignon Festival.
His work can be found in the collections of several institutions such as the National Centre for the Visual Arts Paris, the FRAC Pays de la Loire (Carquefou, France), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Recently, several solo exhibitions have been dedicated to his work both in Europe and in the United States; in 2011 he presented his The School of Objects Criticized at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) – (originally shown at the New Museum in New York in 2010 ) – and Assembly Instructions: The Pledge at Monitor Gallery (Rome) and Art : Concept (Paris), (also shown at the Drawing Center (New York) in 2013). That same year he presented The Humans at Metro Pictures (New York) then at Sprüth Magers, London, in 2014. In 2019 he presented a monographic exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (California).
At the gallery
Videos
- “The Appointement” 2019 – clip
- King’s College London / Modern Classicisms: Alexandre Singh, The Humans. 2018
- Interview of the artist Alexandre Singh during his exhibition “La Critique de l’école des Objets” at the Palais de Tokyo, for the second session. 2010
- La critique de l’école des objets (extrait) – Alexandre Singh © Art Concept