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Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte (Born 1981) is active/lives in Connecticut, New Jersey / Venezuela.  Alex Da Corte is known for Pop art sculpture.

The following text is from Interview Magazine, December 2013

"Alex Da Corte" by Christopher Bollen

Unquestionably, 29-year-old artist Alex Da Corte is an heir to the American school of pop. But Da Corte, who was born in Camden, New Jersey, also lived in Caracas, Venezuela, until he was eight, and some of South America's appreciation for bright, lysergic colors, swirling surfaces, andcelebratory life-and-death imagery can be seen in his rambunctious multimedia productions. "There is a certaindecorative motif to Latin American culture that inspires me," he says. "Like the festive nature of the Day of the Dead and the life-size piñatas with lots of sequins and glitz."

Da Corte, who is currently at Yale University getting his M.F.A. in sculpture, seems to revel in that kind of gleeful explosion of candy and papier-mâché. His sculptures operate partly as high aesthetic comedy—one of his first serious works was a hand-sewn 15-foot-long ketchup bottle madeof vinyl—   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2645 characters.]  Artist bio

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