ALEXANDRE LIBERATO























μελαγχολία

NOVember 2022 · Alexandre liberato gallery · berlin
The exhibition μελαγχολία (melancholy in ancient Greek) brings together fine art print limited editions by HANSLAND and Alexandre Liberato.

HANSLAND presents the photo book “CRETE by Hansland'' accompanied by a series of fine art prints reproducing faithfully the original black and white polaroids taken in Crete, as well as a selection of other works that best crystallize his artistic practice. Over the past ten years he has developed a certain look that some people might describe as "fallen out of time" or "melancholic." The lack of color is probably the main reason, but it is also due to the absence of people, and a preference for old or ancient subjects. Certainly, his photographs of Crete are the opposite to Greece’s popular postcard and most tourist shots.




Liberato shows two of his fine art print limited editions: SER, created digitally in San Sebastian in 2020, and SENSIBILITY, a faithful reproduction of selected parts of ODE TO SENSIBILITY, an artwork on cotton fabric from 2021. Liberato relates to melancholy as something he describes as “positively negative”, finding in the inability to achieve perfection, a pure state of inner peace, transmitted by the geometric structures and materiality, created both physically and digitally.



Artworks






THE WILD ONES
Komos Beach, Crete, 2015 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 24,3 x 19,2 cm

THE MODERN THINGS
Gavaolochori, Crete, 2021 Fine Art Print on Canon Baryta Photopraphique II. 15,1 x 11,9 cm

THIS IS THE HOUSE
Petrokefali, Crete, 2015 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 10,8 x 8,5 cm

SOLITUDE STANDING
Arkadi Monastery, Crete, 2014 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 18,4 x 14,5 cm






GONE AGAIN (2.0)
Agios Pavlos chapel, Crete, 2017
Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 18,4 x 14,5 cm

AERIAL
Rethymno prefecture, Crete, 2014 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 8,5 x 10,8 cm

THE SHIP SONG
Chania, Crete, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 10,8 x 8,5 cm

WHITE HEAT
Chrisoskalitissas Monastery, Crete, 2014Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 18,4 x 14,5 cm





BATHTIME
Seljavallalaug, Iceland, 2014 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 31,8 x 40,0 cm
IN OUR SLEEP
Bedding, Berlin, 2017 Fine Art Print on Canon Baryta Photographique II. 15,1 x 11,9 cm
MORE NEWS FROM NOWHERE
Bauhaus Meisterhaus Moholy-Nagy, Dessau, 2018 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 24,3 x 19,2 cm
WONDERFUL LIFE
Atelier Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence, 2018 Fine Art Print on Canon Baryta Photographique II. II.8,5 x 10,8 cm






SLIP AWAY
Coney Island, Brooklyn NY, 2015 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta. 24,3 x 19,2 cm












SER #1, 2020 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 80x60cm 

SER #2, 2020 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 30x40cm

SER #3, 2020 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 30x40cm

SER #4, 2020 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 30x40cm






SER #5, 2020 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 60x80cm

SER #6, 2020 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 30x40cm

SER #7, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 40x40cm

SER #8, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 40x40cm






SER #9, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 40x40cm

SER #10, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 40x40cm

SER #11, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 40x40cm

SER #12, 2021 Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. 40x40cm






SENSITIVITY #1, 2021 Fine Art Print on Awagami Kozo Thick White paper. 50x50cm

SENSITIVITY #2, 2021 Fine Art Print on Awagami Kozo Thick White paper. 50x70cm

SENSITIVITY #3, 2021Fine Art Print on Awagami Kozo Thick White paper. 100x70cm

HANSLAND is Markus Hans Kleierl (*26.10.1972 in Amberg, Bavaria) combining his pictures with songs. Inspired by Patti Smith’s analog photo work, Hans has been taking black and white photographs since 2013 with original Polaroid "Land" cameras from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Polaroid "Land350" camera with Fuji "FP-3000b" peel-apart packfilm, when still available. Being a very sonic person, he names the shots after songs because he thinks that the pictures are similar to certain songs in terms of the mood, the feeling or even the theme. The fine art prints reproduce faithfully the original instant Polaroids and are produced with great loyalty at Das Foto Image Factory, Berlin. The originals are scanned professionally, then printed in different sizes and with almost no post-processing on Hahnemühle Silk Baryta and/or Canon Baryta Photographic II paper. In the last ten years, HANSLAND has shown his work in several exhibitions in Berlin and Athens. He has self-published a handful of books such as "CRETE by Hansland", "Loom Of The Land" containing pictures combined exclusively with songs by Nick Cave, and most recently "dECADE", a recap of his work from 2013 to 2022.
Alexandre Liberato (*1981, Lisbon) is a Portuguese visual artist based in Berlin. He holds a BA (Hons) in Architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon (2005) and attended CREART Labs in Barcelona (2017). His work has been exhibited internationally in Berlin at KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery Heike Arndt DK, Hošek Contemporary, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival, and Projektraum 145; in Barcelona at Espacio 88; as well as at the Thessaloniki Queer Art Online Festival. In 2019, KONVENT.ZERO selected Liberato for its artist-in-residence program in Barcelona. Liberato’s project focuses on geometry and the body, creating an abstract inclusive space to exist, to contemplate the sublime: a sensibility that touches everyone equally, transforming them from the inside. Through his work, he seeks a conscious Emancipation, not limited to LGBTQ+ people, but rather an Emancipation of masculinity from toxic outdated paradigms.