Alexander Costello:
A Priori (or It's Not About The Thing. It's About All Of It And Doing Things)
Sunday 25th June, 2pm - 3pm - FREEThe Bandstand, Bournemouth Gardens
As a part of the galleries summer campaign ‘GIANT OUTDOORS’, we were thrilled to host a variety of public art events in Bournemouth and on Sunday 25th June GIANT were at Bournemouth Gardens Bandstand to catch a unique performance by Alexander Costello.
Alexander Costello fights paper. The bigger the paper, the harder it is to get his arms all the way around.
“A life of choice is a life of conscious action. A life of chance is a life of unconscious creation” said Neale Donald Walsh. Grant me a tinker and I propose “A sculpture of choice is a sculpture of conscious action. A sculpture of chance is a sculpture of unconscious creation.” Throw Carl Jung’s “Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious” into the mix, and we loosely locate my current practice.
Alexander Costello (b. London, 1976) is an award winning sculptor, video and performance artist. Ideas and work are generated through an interest and responsibility in challenging and exposing the everyday absurdity of perceived norms, systems and place; the simultaneous pursuit of the infinite and finite; the origin and location of idea; and the exploration of processes that are in themselves the truth in the work, often undermined by a resulting outcome. Misinterpretation and miscommunication of action and language, and an impulse to reconsider form and composition, support and bring balance to endeavours.
Costello is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and has a Masters in Fine Art from The Slade School of Art and a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art from Middlesex University.
Image Credits: Chris Johnson 2023.
