Welcome A beautiful performanceObserver highlights a recently opened museum exhibition in a museum not in New York City, and places we know and like have attracted a lot of attention.
“The Whale” is a newly opened program dedicated to painting exercises by Alex da Corte (born 1880 in 1980) of the Museum of Modern Art, which contains more than 40 paintings by kind geniuses. If you are only familiar with Da Corte at his work at museums and biennials, you may not be that familiar with this approach. Institutionally, he tends to be known for his installation and video work. This week marks the opening of Basel's artwork, so it's as good as talking about his paintings.
I wandered, blinked, searched for anything good, just tripped over attractive organic murals or something, and wondered, “What did the genius do?” The answer is usually Da Corte, but you can't blame me for not realizing his work immediately, because it's so diverse and creative. You can't often say about art fairs, which are usually precisely selected because How well are they famous? After all, the average buyer at the fair is looking for an artist's work that immediately indicates his work, and when his last name is hung, his last name will become a noun, namely “Oh, that's my bleckner.”
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As shown in this exhibition, do this with Da Corte. It's hard to imagine that the same artist did it Siren (after EK Charter) (2015) – In the coming intelligence of Ellsworth Kelly Charter (1959) When other Da Cortes folded, such as Marcel Duchamp and Tim Burton Batman movies Electronic Renaissance (2021), an image of two horses, was taken in Disney Story Books, and according to the catalog, “in Dakot’s most gay paintings.” These styles are completely different, both of which are conceptualized in different ways, although still drawing numerous attention and techniques.
There is a light theme in these works because they were taken from the cover of CD albums, but even the covers of these albums are so mutated that their origins are hard to guess. The most similar cover image of the album in the show is the one that appears on the cover of the catalog. anvil (2023), ACME style events of neoprene and styrofoam polystyrene.
Like his installations and videos, Dacort's paintings involve the difficulties and pleasures of becoming a painter, and his works are presented with works of predecessors, and their outputs are also considered the same. Robert Mapplethorpe Self-portrait (1980) Also inspired by Duchamp's self-rerosesélavy, he dared to ask why artists should not be the main theme of their works. Vija Celmins asks if anyone can or should try to replicate the beauty of the ocean. Da Corte said his show title: “The journey of Jung's Night Tour, looking back, takes the past as an act that is mixed with a culture or a personal spirit.” Da Corte and Jung said identity development.
“Alex Dacort: Whale“exist Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth By September 7, 2025.
