Another Fine Mess Welcomes Alexander Medel Calderón
We are excited to announce that Chilean designer and illustrator, Alexander Medel Calderón, has joined the Another Fine Mess artist roster.
Poppy, punchy, playful and irreverent; designer and illustrator Alexander Medel Calderón makes imagery for a millennial generation. The Santiago-based artist takes symbols from contemporary culture – bold, Word Art-esque typography and the European Union's omnipresent circle of golden stars, for example – and injects them with a bold and cheeky disdain to create a graphic language which is at once retro and defiantly modern.
Succulents fall from the sky; anthropomorphised circles and squares gaze confusedly at one another; bubbles burst, clouds drizzle, shapes stack Tetris-like in these curious compositions. Are those matches or drumsticks? Is that a mountain range or a heap of cocaine, forming a silhouette against a pale pink sky? Where does that ladder lead?