Jasmin

Alexander received first prominent international recognition with the iconic Jasmin (1997-8), a highly absorbing painting exhibited in 2002 in the cross-generations show “Painting on the Move”, curated by Peter Pakesch at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. The painting was sitting in this exhibition like an intimate monolith, showing a young woman’s face, - her eyes looking devotionally upwards at a higher realm, - like a Renaissance angel. A dramatic play of shadows gives a touch of contemporary orientalism and goth, while the immediate realism of the features is rather unsettling.