€5.00
Catalogue to Alex Diamond's 2007 exhibition "Love Me With A Gun To My Head" at the heliumcowboy artspace. Limited edition of 1000. SOLD OUT!
edition heliumcowboy #02. 60 pages, full color.
*
Alex Diamond has been around for a while, staging incredible shows that also always celebrate the incarnation of the artist in various characters, shapes or even gender. Diamond appears at these shows in different roles, and underlining this artistic approach he does not reveal his background or vita, which would be an invention anyway.
The difficulties to describe who or what Alex Diamond is already start with the missing vita: Unseizable as a person and difficult to categorize as an artist, Alex Diamond is more fantasy than reality. His main issue always centres around his work and its presentation, but never around the personality of an individual. Alex Diamond appears always as a new and different creation of a role or character with every one of his shows. Not limited by a CV, a formative education or even a dedicated technique or style, Alex Diamond constantly develops a new specific presence for the „Artist behind the work“.
As much as this is unusal, it offers huge freedom other artists may not have. Diamond (or whatever Diamond chooses to be) can tell a completely new and different story using different means or perspectives every time he opens up his studio to release new work. He is a storyteller, a seducer, a catalyst. It is not about the person or the importance of personality today’s artists often get, it is about the changeabilty and flexibilty of the icarnation of the artist as part of his current project.
Alex Diamond is an artist who apparently lives solely through the art he creates - and vice versa. He plays mind tricks with visual aids, pleasing at one moment, disturbing in the next. Independent from styles and techniques, he mirrors life and our constant fight for possession, superiority, survival and love in an almost nonchalant way.