We visited the Asia Contemporary Art Show once again last week, and for the second year running a stand out favorite was Spanish/Australian artist Alberto Sanchez, who was being represented by Retrospect Gallery.
Alberto‘s series of work feature Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and apparently London is on its way in the 2015 collection. For me, my favorites have to be Hong Kong.
Alberto is a photographer and multi-media artist based in Byron Bay, Australia. Sanchez has pushed the medium of photography, developing a unique hand-colouring technique that enables him to create imagined scenarios from everyday moments. This heavy use of hand-colouring and texture results in a conceptual masquerade and ultimately creates an improbable landscape, in which us, the audience, are invited to participate in the struggle of modern life. The images fluctuate between the narrative to the matter-of-fact photographic record, resulting in a hybrid reality, of physical and imagined worlds.