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Alexander Tillegreen: Flight mode (feed), 2014. Chlorine and spray paint on canvas, 95 x 65 cm.
Alexander Tillegreen’s works all circle sound. It can be concrete sound pieces, large spatial interventions, sculptures, graphical works, and in the instance of Flight mode (feed) painting. His visual works are not direct illustrations of sound, but they all reflect on either what it means to be a listening human being, to be absorbed in a rhythm or a tone, to concentrate on a fleeting experience, or on the progress of sound, its many layers, or ways to behave. The work’s title can bring associations to a mobile phone’s function, the flight mode, where signal and internet connection are cut off for a short or long duration. It can also be interpreted as a flight, an escape, or a fleetingness and so direct attention towards the condition of sound.
Alexander Tillegreen (1991, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. He has studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt and Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Sidelong, he has studied Art history and Sound studies at University of Copenhagen and since 2019, he has done artistic research at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. Tillegreen has exhibited and performed his works at Basis, DE; Museum für Moderne Kunst, DE; CTM Transmediale Festival, DE; fffriedrich, DE; Kunstverein Wiesen, DE; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, DE; Roskilde Festival, DK; CPH DOX, DK; Eufonia Festival, DE; Galerie Jean Claude Maier, DE; Galleri Tom Christoffersen, DK, Fotografisk Center, DK; Statens Museum for Kunst, DK; Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, DK; FuturDome, I; Museum Tinguely, CH, among others. He has released his solo album at the German record label Raster-Media.
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