The Blacker Gachet

Painted in Berlin in 2004, exhibited in London in 2005. Based on the portrait of Dr. Gachet by Van Gogh, Dr. Gachet, reputedly a lover of art and amateur artist, Alexander amplifies the sensitivity and longing of the original, painting them in shades of black and placing them behind museum glass. They act as black mirrors, implicating us in this endless black hole of longing. This black mirror effect, a constant longing, was a term used to describe the effect of the smartphone launched two years later in 2007.