THE ENDLESS ORCHARD OF ALEX MACEDO
One artist’s quest to turn domestic relics and working-class symbols into luminous acts of self-reflection.
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Born in Ettelbruck, a small town in the middle of Luxembourg, Alex Macedo (@alexmaced0 ) 30, moved to Vienna to study at the University of Applied Arts roughly ten years ago. At the time, he had no idea which medium he would become most familiar with. He liked fashion, he did collaging, maybe some painting—but he was essentially lost. “Painting, especially classical painting, was a bit uncool,” he told us, recalling a time when his technique was far from refined. Yet the countless hours he spent wandering through museums ignited a curiosity that would define his career. How could one reach such a command of color, composition, and light on a two-dimensional surface? Driven by a burning need to find an answer, he set out to reclaim a style long confined to the most conservative corner of figurative painting: religious art.
Read about Alex Macedo and discover the Easter egg that’s omnipresent in his work in NONSENSE issue 001 “ARTISANS”.
Words by Naomi Accardi-Talleyrand
Photography by Alex Macedo
