Alejandro Cesarco

Alejandro Cesarco’s “Album” (Leporello N° 11) presents the titles and durations of each of the songs that make up The Cure’s “Disintegration”, the band’s iconic album from 1989. Each song is listed on its own panel, as if they were images in a photo album.

Admittedly, The Cure plays heavily in the soundtrack of Cesarco’s youth. These gloomy soundscapes further the artist’s investigation into questions of aging–both in relation to style, regrets, and possibilities. Curiously, Robert Smith, the band’s frontman, wrote “Disintegration” as he was about to turn thirty, supposedly fearing his best years were behind him.

The release of Cesarco’s “Album” coincides unexpectedly with “Songs of a Lost World”, The Cure’s latest, and fourteenth, studio album.