Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Honey’, Millesgården Museum, Stockholm (2022), The Remnants’, Bishopsgate 100, London (2022), ‘Tight Squeeze’, Huxley Parlour, London (2021), ‘Roman Toothpaste’, Vandalorum, Värnamo, Sweden (2021), ‘The Flavour is So Strong’, Larsen Warner, Stockholm (2019), ‘L’Ultima Cera’, Church San Bernardino alle Monache, Milan (2019), ‘Visual Vertigo’, Espace Muraille, Geneva, Switzerland (2018). Recent group exhibitions include; ‘Villeggiatura’, Nevve Gallery, Cascina Gilli, Castelnuovo Don Bosco, Italy (2022), ‘Toucher Terre’, Fondation Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (2022), Rapture (duo show with Takuro Kuwata), Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden, ‘This Must Be the Place’, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany (2021), ‘Mixed Pickles 9’, Ruttkowski 68, München, Germany (2021).
Anton Alvarez Swedish Chilean, b. 1980
Anton Alvarez (b.1980) is a Swedish-Chilean artist, currently based in Stockholm. He graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2012 with an MFA, after completing his BFA at Konstfack, Stockholm, in 2009.
Anton’s sculptural forms explore the relationship between human creation and mechanical apparatus. His practice focuses on technical innovation, designing systems and tools which produce fully formed objects and architecture. While remaining at the forefront of his methods, Alvarez allows his machines to dictate the aesthetics of his work. Form and texture are determined by The Extruder, a self-constructed, 3 tonne strong ceramic press which discharges huge columns of warped clay. While subtly dictating the direction his works take, Alvarez prefers his sculptures to appear as if they had been made within nature. Thus, he opts to use wood, ceramic, and thread, materials we interact with daily. The works challenge our perception of weight and gravity and appear to be soft and organic, as well as hard and artificial. Anton continues to playfully push the boundaries, creating works rich in tradition and at the same time utterly unconventional to create a truly unique and surprising sculptural environment.
Anton’s work is included in the public collections of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA and the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.