L’Amour et la Violence - after Hans Memling - ALEX URSO

L’Amour et la Violence – after Hans Memling

This series of collages on polaroid speaks about a loving yet hurtful story of love. The quotation within is, encore, the Last Judgment triptych painted by Hans Memling between 1467 and 1471, mentioned by Alex Urso in most of his production of 2015 and 2016.

The naked bodies seats with collage technique on photos, are extracted from the painting, precisely from the right panel of the Memling’s masterpiece – depicting the hell. The anguishing bodies of the damned, however, instead of dying in the flames of hell, are juxtaposed on the bodies of the two lovers.

These photos are polaroids crumpled, damaged, excerpted from the past to become objects, remains, memories of a story full of passion and torment. Of love and violence.