Alexi K's structures are a mass and often explosion of colour. Each painting is the result of many layers of acrylic paint, and hours of painstaking work. Some of the finished effect is machine-like, however Alexi K likes to leave areas of painterliness, confirming the human hand in the process.

The work is a comment on contemporary culture and immediate history relating to comic-books, cinema and architecture.

The interest in comics and film stems from his childhood, where both played an integral part of the artist's everyday life. This continues as a thread within the work, in terms of architectural structures and motifs, where other forms of graphic design, and various 20th Century art movements such as Futurism, are also assimilated.

Alongside this interest in architecture and comics, Alexi K is also influenced by music and travel.

J D Francis

Exhibitions

Japan, 2004

Birmingham 2011

Greece 2012

Greece 2013