For Luigi 2025 (A collaboration with Jelena Telecki)
First presented at the British School at Rome Open Studio Program June 2025
Hazewinkel works mostly with sculptural casting and modelling processes. His unique sand-casting process involves working in and with landscapes. Through this process he produces casts that carry in their surfaces and volumes site-specific geological, riverine and residual anthropic material, thereby melding geological and human temporal registers. He also creates objects through processes of assemblage, often intervening into the object biographies of found objects and materials.
Telecki is a painter working mostly in the field of figural representation as a means of exposing and exploring psychological tensions associated with formal and informal power dynamics, intimacy and violence.
Hazewinkel and Telecki both have established individual practices and exhibition histories, they also have a history of collaboration. For Luigi, the latest iteration of their sporadic, ongoing collaboration, featured a suite of recent sand-cast lead objects made in sand and silt that the artists excavated from the banks of the Tiber river, oil paintings (on linen and polyester), and a floor based sculpture made of a late nineteenth century carved wooden ornament resurfaced with Tiber river sand, church candles, and antique damask.
Viewed through a specific historic lens, the research project and exhibition For Luigi reflects on the at times murky artist - patron relations. The body of work that developed through their 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.
