Andrew Hazewinkel

As a sculptor I work mostly with casting and modelling processes drawing out pyschological tensions that reside in the space between our soft ephemeral bodies and usually broken bodies of ancient statuary. I also make of objects through processes of assemblage, often incorportaing found objects and materials into which I intervene.

Jelena Telecki is a painter working in the field of pictorial representation through which she explores psychological tensions associated with formal and informal power dynamics, intimacy and violence.

Telecki and I have established individual practices and exhibition histories, we also have a history of coming together in collaboration. For Luigi, the latest iteration of our ongoing collaboration, featured a suite of recently created sand-cast lead objects made in sand that we excavated from the banks of the Tiber river, oil paintings on linen and polyester, and a sculpture created with a late nineteenth century carved wooden ornament resurfaced with Tiber river sand, church candles, and antique damask.

For Luigi reflects on the at times murky artist - patron/commissioner relations via a specific historic lens. The research-rich body of work that developed through our collaboration takes as its point of departure the relationship between the eighteenth century Roman artist Luigi Valadier and Pope Pius VI, which ended tragically with the artist taking his own life by drowning himself in the Tiber as a result of cascading financial pressures arising from unpaid commissions.