London painter Alexander James captures his grandfather’s storytelling and memories on canvas скачать в хорошем качестве

London painter Alexander James captures his grandfather’s storytelling and memories on canvas

Recognized for his large-scale abstract works, London-based painter Alexander James has found a channel for intimate reflections through his art, embedded with personal memories and histories. Entering art as a self-confessed storyteller, James consumes and combines recent and ancient fragments on canvas – building his recent body of work as a diary, translated from letters, photographs and memorabilia, conversations and emotions. Looking to his grandfather Gerry Kaye’s stories as a profound influence since his childhood, snippets of their conversations live on, collating from tapes gathered over the years. Passing down the weight of history through tales of family, resilience, and London life after World War II, an intimate telephone conversation between them becomes the backbone of short film Smile – honoring the power of intergenerational storytelling.…read more at nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness