'The opportunity to experience the art of Alex Rose is rare. His reclusive character and deeply personal process results in the literal and metaphorical temporality of the work. Rose’s dark yet hauntingly beautiful drawings, collages, and photographs are composites of re-configured magazine and newspaper images, letters, and found objects. Once finished, Rose buries or burns the work to "lay it to rest," documenting its destruction. This event can be seen as a ritualistic performance that establishes his creations as sacred objects, and also expresses the fear of loss. In this way, Rose is able to transcend the pain and circumstances of its making.
'It is only recently that Rose has begun to lay his work to rest in boxes, as if in a coffin, which he sends to New York for exhumation by envoy. By allowing the gallery to "resurrect" his images, the artist has come to accept the possibility that their display may result in feelings of hope and understanding for viewers. In the words of curator Bob Nickas, who sees Rose as a visionary, the exhibition is an open viewing of his most recent body of work.
'Innately moving, every work is made precious by careful execution and unusual technique. By producing books and diaries, and compiling documents and objects, Rose’s work has a three-dimensional property rarely addressed in collage and drawing. In medium and content, he comments on both decadence and beauty, as well as exclusion, violence, and struggles with identity and acceptance. There is a clear sense of the artist working through past experiences, creating a complex visual narrative which reflects his search for self-positioning in the world. ' -- Envoy Enterprises
Alex Rose lives and works in Cork, Ireland. He began making art at the age of 13, burying family pets and building them shell and stone shrines. He went to three different art colleges in Ireland. He dropped out of the first after suffering a mini-breakdown. Between the second and third he moved briefly to London, working on construction sites and in factories. He finished Art College with the second lowest degree.
Alex Rose @ Envoy Enterprises
Outside the (White) Box: Alex Rose @ Interview Magazine
Envoy Enterprises @ Facebook
Alex Rose @ jameswagner.com
Alex Rose interviewed by Thomas Moronic
Alex Rose collaborator Ossian Brown/Cyclobe
Cloven Skull
Installation shots
Recent works
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p.s. Hey. First, regarding the film quiz yesterday, here are the correct answers: (1) Star Wars, (2) The Shining, (3) Shutter Island, (4) Scooby-Doo, (5) Terms of Endearment, (6) Star 80, (7) Romancing the Stone, (8) East Rider, (9) The Pianist, (10) Jaws, (11) Ghostbusters, (12) Freaky Friday, (13) Fanny & Alexander, (14) Elephant Man, (15) Equilibrium, (16) Die Hard, (17) The Devil Probably, (18) Cujo, (19) Close Encounters, (20) Children of Men, (21) Book of Eli, (22) Blue Velvet, (23) Planet of the Apes, (24) Alien, (25) Alien, (26) The Ruins, (27) 50 First Dates. You guys did very well. Every title was guessed by somebody or other. So, adding up the scores: Kier -- 10, Math -- 22, Frank Jaffe -- 8, Chris Goode -- 0, Changeling -- 23, Tony O'Neill -- 5, David Ehrenstein -- 5, Sypha -- 3, Tender Prey -- 1, Doritoes2k -- 23, FL -- 19, Hedi -- 23, Colin Low -- 26, Marilyn -- 10, Jesse Bransford -- 4, Rigby -- 0 (technically only), The Dreadful Flying Glove -- another 0 with a bullet, Inthemostpeculiarway -- 4, Zod Microbe -- 16, Armando -- 15. So, if my calculations are correct, the winner is ... Colin Low. Congratulations. So, now, Colin, you get to a pick any thing or person or, uh, concept, I guess, that you like, and I will make a blog day about it/ him/ them/ her. So, what do you choose? Tell me in the comments arena today, and I will set to making your prize post. Thanks, everybody. We should do more of these clearly. By me, or we could do guest-hosted pop quizzes by one or more of you guys, if anyone's game. The only other thing I guess I'll say before heading south into you guys is that it's always a boon to have the great artist and d.l. Alex Rose's work on the blog, and, with the disadvantage of not being in the neighborhood of his current NYC show, this seemed a ripe occasion. Needless to say, those of you in the area are strongly urged to catch his exhibition during its last few days. ** Wolf, Yes, please do add your genius to the history of visionary French filmmaking auteurs and keep it shining. ** Kier, Good guesses, and you really helped out the later comers, which is mixed blessing, I guess. I haven't seen the director's cut of 'Another Day in Paradise', but, as I understand, it has a lot more Vincent Kartheiser nudity in it, I think, making which of the two to watch a no brainer, no? ** Killer Luka, Me, I think the Oscar, or the Independent Spirit Award at least, should be redesigned into a golden souvenir of Lukas Haas' ear. Actually, illustrated fiction is making a little bit of a comeback these days due to the life saving wave of experimental, anything goes fiction that's making the US the place to read. 'Attach' is the problematic word. 'Collab' is the thing. Go for it, K. The blog will be your magic carpet if we can figure out a way. ** Changeling, I was checking in on the contest progress almost every time I snuck away for a cigarette, and you were the winner for most of the (French) daylight hours yesterday, and then in a three-way tie for winner until I went to bed. Good show, man. ** Math, You too. Excellent guessing job, especially for a puking insomniac. If I could have given the prize out for sentimental reasons, you'd be crowned or whatever. I'm over the hump, thanks to you, and an In 'n' Out grille cheese tops my my LA agenda. I know that book about SF punk, but I haven't managed to actually snag it yet. I need to. Just the words Mabuhay Gardens gets me a little sniffly. ** Frank Jaffe, Thanks for it giving the old college try. You broke some excellent ground. Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray? I'll say phooey until the film proves otherwise. ** Chris Goode, I tell you what. I'll keep saying I wrote 'Frisk', but I'll tell everyone you directed that 'Frisk' movie. Ha ha. 'The Wizard of Oz', close, very very close. ** Tonyoneill, Glad you liked it. Yeah, there were a bunch of Polish posters in there, a few Ukrainian, a few Russian, a few African, and this and that. Hope today is fully and resolutely yours, man. ** David Ehrenstein, Douglas has a douchey vibe to him, I agree. Read a big piece about him in Vanity Fair on my last plane flight that did nothing to dissemble that presumption. My computer's signal is too crappy today to use links without getting a server crash, but I'll read that Godard interview greedily asap. I stupidly missed the new Resnais when it was in theaters for a week or so here. Word was very good about it. I'll pray the French DVD includes English subtitles 'cos I can't imagine it getting a US DVD release. Everyone seems to quite like the new Oliveira that just played at Cannes. Thanks, D. ** Alan, I think there was a kind of humor Hadron Collider happening here for a couple of days. Wait, are you now trying to take credit for the idea behind your own contest?! (There I go again.) Here's what I'll do: all future pop quiz days will billed 'Alan's original idea presents ... ' (There I go again.) ** Sypha, To be a bit repetitive, that so-called interview with Bret wherein he supposedly said he was Republican is about as suspect a source as an interview could be. ** Tender prey, Yeah, if you don't mind letting me off the hook on that first question, that would be great. This phase of theater work is really stressful and is frying my (and everyone else involved) brains the last couple of days. See: day report below. I'm really sorry. Your current question is really easy, obviously. The game in 'God Jr.' is mostly based on 'Banjo Kazooie', an old N64 game. There are a few others mixed in there a bit: 'Conkers Bad Fur Day', a bit one of the Zeldas, the BK sequel 'Banjo Tooie', ... But 'BK' is the main source. ** Doritoes2k, Hey, welcome to here, and thanks for doing the quiz. You did incredibly well, obviously. Do come back and hang out if and whenever you feel like it. ** FL, Hey, thanks a lot, and welcome to here. You did so well, almost aced it. Anyway, a pleasure to have you, and do hang out here anytime, please. ** Kiddiepunk, Hey! Thank you for holding Paris together. I'll reward you with ... something. I want to check out the bookstore you guys found, obviously. I imagine you won't mind guiding me there. Hm, interesting about the Kiarostami. I read a couple of reviews of it re: the Cannes screening, and, mm, it sounded kind of problematic, or the critics seemed to think it was not up to his usual standards or something. Maybe I'll go with you if you see it again? See you in less than a week. How's your film hanging in there? ** David, Hey. Oh, that blog you found sounds like something that needs to be checked out. I can't right now due to very fragile internet signal, but I will asap. In the meantime, I'll pass along your news: Everyone, listen to David: 'Looking at nick's blogger followers last weekend, I made the acquaintance of eighteen year old Eddie, a Glasgow boy who works construction and wants to be a writer. His blog, hornynhard.blogspot.com is primarily the story of his sexual awakening but has some other pleasures along the way, ex.TV character Big Man from Chewing The Fat.' Thanks a lot, D. ** Ken Baumann, I could be wrangled. When I make my triumphant (in my own mind) return to the LA fold, nudge me. If you're game to be part of it, that'll kind of seal the deal. Thanks, Ken. ** Hedi, Hey, Hedi. When I went to sleep last night, you were a co-winner of the quiz. Excellent job. You were the first person to get 'Elephant Man'. I'd started to believe that was going to be single stumper in the bunch. You did that poster book the Cujo poster was in? I saw that. I came a hair's breadth from buying it. It's gorgeous. Thanks a lot for chiming in, man. ** Colin Low, First, welcome and thank you. Second, you won, man. Kudos, buzzers going off, confetti falling, and all that. So, what are you going to make me make a blog day about? Anything you like. Name it. Please consider the blog one of your new homes away from home, yes? ** Marilyn, Very pleased to meet you, Marilyn. Fine set of guesses there, obviously. Thank you. Now that the ice is broken, do come back in here any time and as often as you like. ** Steevee, Hope it works, man. Are you feeling anything yet? ** Jesse Bransford, Oh, yeah, sure, mention my name to Scott and Terence. I know Scott will be into it no matter what. What exactly is this Gysin project you're doing? Is it an official, retrospective-related thing? Oh, and while I've got you, and if you have minute, what was Feature's free art event like? I was killing myself that I couldn't be lined up in advance at the door for hours and hours. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, Ben. ** Justin, You didn't need to take yourself out of the running, man. Since it was your baby to begin with, go ahead and tell me what blog day you want me to do. You get to be the honorary co-winner. Glad to hear about your dad's sailing through the surgery. Slava Mogutin, huh? Not sure I have that kind of pull, but, heck, I'll see what I can do. ** Trees, A guy who's convinced that brutal rape and murder aren't so bad and who also knows how to operate a welding tool might be someone to approach with a canister of Mace in pocket. I'm just saying, ha ha. Date, Gravy Train, interesting. Safe, tat, wowzer. ** Rigby, You really should get some kind of prize, my goodness. What do you want? A blog day or a ... ? ** Chris (British), Hey. Good question. I suppose the Eastern Europeans would ask what's with all the photoshopped movie star faces? ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Dang. You may have lost the contest, but I bow deeply to you as you bravely applaud the winner. ** Jeff, The words were far more true than kind. Yeah, I can see why the internet medium would feel right to you. That makes total sense, and it's beautiful too. ** Slatted Light, I'm definitely possibly at a disadvantage vis a vis knowing Bret a little, but I just don't take the Twitter stuff and the stuff about Christian that seriously. I've heard him say things that evinced an entirely different opinion. Me, I think the Salinger tweet was quite sophisticated, but I think the 'what did he mean' reaction wasn't an accident. I don't personally find his provocative opinions all that fun or interesting, but I know him -- and think his work -- to be complicated enough politically, emotionally, tonally, and so on that I don't find the contrariness of his opinion launchings concrete enough to be a negation of his achievements. You know, I actually think he's an LA writer down to his molecules. In fact, I relate to his work very much as coming from a Los Angeleno base, easily as much as mine. Favored or most spun albums of late? Hm, ... the new Emeralds album from Mego, the latest Locrian, the new Broken Social Scene, the last Crystal Castles, ... those are the ones that first spring to mind. I have in the past sometimes listened to music while I wrote as part of an experiment. Lately, no. This new novel takes intense concentration to get right, and any outside stuff is a problem for me. Dead silence at the moment. Do you work with music? How does that interplay, input work with non-fiction? Great to see you, man, as always. ** JW Veldhoen, I doubt Bret has read Lacan. Hm, I barely have. I used to fall in love with people I shouldn't have fallen in love with all the time. Now, my radar is better or something. One of the few perks of getting older and, ugh, wiser maybe. ** Misanthrope, That quiz was just the faintest shadow of Alan's great post. There, I said it! A book cover quiz would work, sure. Have at it, man. I find the claims that anything can make quitting cigarettes a withdrawals-free experience completely unbelievable, but, oh dear God, I'd love to be proven wrong. Prove me wrong, man. I beg you. Hope the proofreading all-nighter didn't kill you. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Sorry about that nightmare, but it was gorgeous in language form. That cat thing is weird, but I don't get the having a pet thing hardly at all. I'm weird. If you were the protagonist of 'The Heart is the Lonely Hunter' your bouts of deep sadness would have to do with people around you feeling they can tell you anything and basically thinking of you as a rock rather than a person who has a lot complicated emotions yourself and therefore not giving you the opportunity to release your feelings to them. But that's a book. My day: Long and complicated and stressful and sometimes good and sometimes not so good. I can't go into too much of it in detail. We worked on this and that most of the day, and then we did our first run-through of the piece as it currently stands since we've gathered here. In some ways, the piece is finally falling into place, and you can see that it will or at least could be great. I felt that for the first time. On the other hand, the technical stuff, especially the projections/ holographic stuff is a mess, and that's a huge problem because the hologram artist guy is only going to be working with us for two more days, and it's getting to the point where we may need to just cut that whole element out if things don't improve drastically in the next two days, and that cut would make for a massive problem. Also, and I'll be vague, there's one section of the piece that was my idea, and which a couple of the texts were written to address and work carefully with, and Gisele decided to completely rethink and restage that section, and I was kind of shocked by what I saw, and there was a rather heated disagreement about it that was not nice, not good, and which left things really weird, although she and I talked about it again late last night, and we're going to try to reconcile my vision of the scene with hers to see if we can each find something we're happy with. Anyway, we're all quite tense and exhausted at the moment. I hope we can get some big decisions made and progress accomplished today. We need to. So, all that happened, and then I slept. Breathe the breath of fresh air that is your Thursday in my direction please? ** Zod Microbe, A fine list of answers, sir. So few wrong. It's a crime you didn't get the crown. How are you? How's everything going? I'd love to hear if you're free to tell. ** Armando, Hey, man. Good guesses. You did a fuck of a lot better than I could have, I'll tell you that. You good? ** Oscar B, O, my pal. Good to hear your side of the movie's story. You fine and dandy? I'm scrambling out here now late, late, late for work, so a hug and kiss from me. ** Bollo, Hey, man. I just got berated for being late for the rehearsals, so I have to zoom by right now. Sorry, man, and hey! ** I'm now very late again for my date with the theater. Have to run. Enjoy Alex Rose's genius until tomorrow at the very least. See you then.
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