Alexandre Moore Rockefeller

Alexandre Moore Rockefeller was born in Paris in 1988 into a family of industrialists. He discovered painting by enrolling in art classes. There he forged his technique and developed a passion for the history of art.

He will choose to study the nude in particular. The flesh being for him the last place of personal power. His work is inspired by artists who have sublimated the ideal beauty of the body: Titian (notably with "The Venus of Urbino"), Vélasquez, Goya, Monet, Matisse, Modigliani, Tom Wesselmann.

He will seek, all his life, to leave his mark on the present by relying on a precise knowledge of the past; his aesthetics, his approach. The form must be as refined as possible on a monochrome background. Only the reflection of the light by the metallic color materializes the space and the silhouette. The human body is transformed by the use of paint and iridescent colors, drawing inspiration from collage and sculpture.

Drawing and color cannot be dissociated. Each line, each curve, each flat color contributes to the creation of a form. The latter is sublimated by the interaction and association of colors.

Its palette, made up of metallic colors, evolves in different ways generating strength and energy, thus creating its signature.

“My goal is not to represent an ideal and stereotyped body because I recognize the diversity of bodies. I am only interested in the manifestations of life and their forms, which I transcend through elements of the body, through a sculpted silhouette and abstract nudity.

They are odes to femininity, to the autonomous, authentic and free woman. I work instinctively, on feeling, on vibration, like a head-to-head fusion with the living.

Each line corresponds to an idea. The body, its plasticity, its sensuality, seems to occupy the entire canvas. The proportions depend on the size of the canvas. Construction happens naturally.

I shape the human body with knife strokes, with bursts of color simulating the metamorphosis into bursts of life. From this energy is born a sensation in the moment. The graphics, the intensity of each touch and the materials harmonize and articulate in a unique abstract figure. Thus I hope to achieve an aesthetic transposition of my reality. » AM Rockefeller (February 2014)