Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember
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Author: Da Corte, Alex
Published for a major retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and documenting all of his major works to date, this title matches the artist’s high-production, ultra-chromatic sensibility in its gorgeous production, with a three-colour cloth binding, silver foil on the cover, a paperback volume sewn into the book and an abundance of riotous colour throughout, with more than 100 pages of installation views from previous exhibitions.This comprehensive monograph celebrates the acclaimed Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980), famed for his show-stopping 2021 Roof Garden Commission for the Met, 'As Long as the Sun Lasts'. Da Corte’s Day-Glo works are distinctly rooted in traditional American arts and culture – tellingly, as a teenager he planned to become an animator for Disney – and the artist himself often appears in his films, impersonating iconic figures such as Popeye, the Statue of Liberty, Fred Rogers or Eminem. Throughout, the pop flavour of Da Corte’s aesthetics is mixed with a satirical existentialism: his works often combine sadness and effortless play, connecting our sense of self with consumer culture – from the films we watch to the objects we buy, give and throw away.
ISBN 9788793659575. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. hb. 320 pages. 200 colour ills. 25 x 25cm.
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Published for a major retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and documenting all of his major works to date, this title matches the artist’s high-production, ultra-chromatic sensibility in its gorgeous production, with a three-colour cloth binding, silver foil on the cover, a paperback volume sewn into the book and an abundance of riotous colour throughout, with more than 100 pages of installation views from previous exhibitions.This comprehensive monograph celebrates the acclaimed Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980), famed for his show-stopping 2021 Roof Garden Commission for the Met, 'As Long as the Sun Lasts'. Da Corte’s Day-Glo works are distinctly rooted in traditional American arts and culture – tellingly, as a teenager he planned to become an animator for Disney – and the artist himself often appears in his films, impersonating iconic figures such as Popeye, the Statue of Liberty, Fred Rogers or Eminem. Throughout, the pop flavour of Da Corte’s aesthetics is mixed with a satirical existentialism: his works often combine sadness and effortless play, connecting our sense of self with consumer culture – from the films we watch to the objects we buy, give and throw away.
ISBN 9788793659575. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. hb. 320 pages. 200 colour ills. 25 x 25cm.
available