The Lolita´s

The `Lolita´ series arose from Alexander’s fascination for a fashion culture in Japan which is currently spreading around the world.
In this fashion culture the Lolita´s manifest themselves as pretty looking girls in Victorian-like dresses.

This series, as well as the Conception series, are influenced by the Ukiyo-e, but with this serie more focussed on the Ukiyo-e of the courtesan ; beautiful Japanese Ladies dressed in even more beautiful kimono´s. Next to the influence of the Ukiyo-e is the Zenga, a specific kind of art that is made within the traditions of Zenbuddhism.

The Lolita´s that are represented by Alexander are young teenagers from the present time dressed in highly refined dresses which are painted in great detail, standing within a dazzling emptyness of space where they seem to float or hang in mid air. Only the last 2 years he started to experiment with a more abstract background. Trying to find a story within his work.

The lolita´s represent innocence, defying the viewer with the strength of their youth, youth in our times is almost exclusively confronted with an empty sort of ambition within the economic system in which they are supposed to find a place for their future. Their imagination about life and how to express and experience it (may) exist only in their spare time which is already becoming less, virtually their entire education is set to prepare and to have a secure future.

With the Lolita´s Alexander refers to our vital lifeforce in which there is still room to create a kind of gentle fantasy world where everything is possible, there, all the attention can still go to the refinement of that which surrounds and fascinates us.
The strength of the Lolita´s is the power of their innocence , the power to choose what is alive in ones heart.
The times are especially difficult for young people,it requires great strength to choose an idealistic path which in their circumstances can be seen as uncertain or misplaced because the choice reveals their own fantasy world rather than a world which has been created for them.