1: Can you tell me about your background? And what was the first artwork you made ?

I was born in Camden, New Jersey and grew up in Caracas, Venezuela. I studied animation in college. The first artwork I made in college was a birthday cake made of plaster.

2: What is more important to you regarding your work: The Process. The final visual outcome. The material ? Or something else ?

Well the process of making and thinking is why I do what I do. This is a slow and very tangled tapestry that we are unravelling or amending, and as long as there are holes in it then the work is right where it should be and will continue to be needed. I don’t think there is such a thing as a final visual outcome.

3: The idea / concept behind your art – Can you tell me more about it ?

The work and the words ascribed to my work are always shifting and morphing.
Id like to think that the work points to those divisions and shifts in perception, the residue of experience, the inability to translate or articulate, and proposes new ideas for how objects and people can coexist- or not…

4: What is the Worst thing about being an artist?

Its a fine job.

5: I have a feeling there must be so many personal stories linked to your works, The scarfs in the show in Copenhagen – Can you tell me more about it ?

There are many stories linked to the objects i use, and the ones we find in the street- the scarves have a special place in my heart- and what they reveal about ones lifestyle is why i cared to use them in the first place.

6: What would you ask an artist in a Q&A and Who ?

Excuse me, Mister Duchamp, can i have your shoe?

Solo show at David Risley Gallery  – Copenhagen

Solo show right now at Carl Kostyal – Stockholm

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Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, N.J., in 1981 and currently lives and works in Philadelphia. He received his BFA from the University of the Arts and his MFA from Yale University in 2010.

Da Corte has recently mounted solo shows and presentations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Artspeak, Vancouver; Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine; and Nudashank, Baltimore. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art and the deCordova Museum, and he has participated extensively in gallery and non-profit exhibitions in the US and internationally.

Go see Alex´s work at David Risley Gallery in Copenhagen

Link to: Artforum / 500 Words

In 2012, Da Corte was named a Pew Fellow in the Arts by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia.

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Link to Gallery: >> David Risley Gallery

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Interview Alex Da Corte – The FADER

“Philadelphia-based artist Alex Da Corte makes work about the circumstances that lead to a beautifully considered sales display, from the person who made it to the history of the materials. He considers himself an anthropologist of the immediate past, and looks for meaning in the stuff that fills our stores and later our trash dumps by repurposing it, re-displaying it and showing its less camera-ready angles.” 

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“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.”

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