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Storytelling - Part II - The many lives of Alexander I

Mixed media. 'Matter' group exhibition. County Hall, London. February 2019.

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Alexander follows Aristotle´s distinction between potentiality and actuality.

Alexander doesn't really exist, but it has the potential of existence. It's potentiality will be actualised through any artistic technic. 

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Each artistic medium acts as a different language that materializes the abstraction of Alexander in a particular way. The intrinsic properties of each language will give the outcome its unique characteristics.

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Every technic will actualise Alexander in a different manner. Using clay, steel, a pencil, digital media, fire, etc., Alexander will be actualised with distinctive properties. 

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Scale, time, light, texture, sound, resistance... All the parameters will be defined by the technic. The undefined abstraction becomes real, always different, always unique, depending on the actualisation process.

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© Pablo A. Padilla Jargstorf

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