Video: Alexander Corzer-Robinson: Looking Through Books
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
About the German author Alexander Korzer-Robinson, we can say that he manages to look books right into the soul. After all, he turns each edition into a real work of art, removing all unnecessary and leaving only the most important thing.
To create his works, Alexander takes old illustrated books, arms himself with a sharp blade and gets to work. Page by page, he cuts out the images, leaving some in their places and deleting others. Each element that we see in the final work is in the same place where it was at one time in the book. The last step in the work is to "seal" the book around the perimeter so that it can no longer be opened.
On his website, Alexander Korzer-Robinson says: “Remembering the books we have read, we can say that certain fragments remain with us while others are forgotten over time - phrases and passages, represented images, evoked feelings and thoughts … In our memory we create from memorable fragments, new stories, which are sometimes extremely distant from the original content. If you look at it, then in the same way we remember our whole life: we form from fragments of history that are constantly changing. This largely subconscious process of meaningful judgments and coincidences is of interest to me as an artist and psychologist."
Through his creativity, the author strips books, stripping them of their original utilitarian value, and instead gives them a new meaning. Having been in the hands of Alexander, books cease to be a tool for studying the world around them, now they provide an opportunity to penetrate into the essence of oneself.
Alexander Korzer-Robinson is a Berlin-based writer currently living in Bristol. He is a psychologist by education, which cannot but affect his work: according to the author, his artistic practice focuses on the idea of an “inner landscape”.
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