 – Focusing on the past decade of Alex Da Corte’s career, “The Whale” is an exhibition which will feature more than forty paintings, several drawings and…){kind=link}
FORT WORTH, TX (PNAN) – Focusing on the past decade of Alex Da Corte’s career, “The Whale” is an exhibition which will feature more than forty paintings, several drawings and a video that considers painting as a performative act opens on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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.
“The Whale” illustrates the artist’s vast mining of contemporary culture, a process that Da Corte describes as “analogous to the Jungian night sea journey, looking backward and collecting the past as an act of commingling with spirits, either cultural or personal.” This concept is drawn from the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, relates to myths in which the hero is devoured by a sea monster, a whale and descends into a land of ghosts, e.g. Hades or Hell, in the quest for individuality.
The exhibition incorporates Shampoo Paintings comprised of drugstore hair products, and sculptural Slatwall Paintings, where found objects protrude from the slatted grooves found in everyday commercial displays. The remaining paintings are reverse-glass paintings, in which the artist employs a process often used in animated celluloids and sign-making. In addition, the exhibition encompasses the artist’s source materials and ephemera, providing a fresh perspective on his process.
For complete programming and more in-depth details about this show, call 817.738.9215 or online www.modern.org