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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents Alex Da Corte: "The Whale"

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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present Alex Da Corte: "The Whale," the first museum exhibition to survey the interdisciplinary artist’s long relationship with painting. Focusing on the past decade of Da Corte’s career, the exhibition features more than 40 paintings, several drawings, and a video that considers painting as a performative act.

Da Corte is globally recognized for his hybrid installations marrying painting, performance, video, and sculpture. Immersed in the history of art, design, and pop culture, Da Corte’s combinations evoke mixed feelings, such as fantasy and malice, while crossing hierarchies of high and low culture. His works combine modernist color theory and the spatial experiments of post-minimalist sculpture to consider topics including consumerism, persona, sex, invisible labor, taste, power, and desire.

Organized by the Modern and Curator Alison Hearst, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a special contribution from Da Corte and essays by Hearst, poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, art historian Suzanne Hudson, and scholar Kemi Adeyemi.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will present Alex Da Corte: "The Whale," the first museum exhibition to survey the interdisciplinary artist’s long relationship with painting. Focusing on the past decade of Da Corte’s career, the exhibition features more than 40 paintings, several drawings, and a video that considers painting as a performative act.

Da Corte is globally recognized for his hybrid installations marrying painting, performance, video, and sculpture. Immersed in the history of art, design, and pop culture, Da Corte’s combinations evoke mixed feelings, such as fantasy and malice, while crossing hierarchies of high and low culture. His works combine modernist color theory and the spatial experiments of post-minimalist sculpture to consider topics including consumerism, persona, sex, invisible labor, taste, power, and desire.

Organized by the Modern and Curator Alison Hearst, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a special contribution from Da Corte and essays by Hearst, poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib, art historian Suzanne Hudson, and scholar Kemi Adeyemi.

WHEN

WHERE

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell St, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA
https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/alex-da-corte-whale

TICKET INFO

Free-$16

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