Alex Da Corte & Ericka Beckman

The US-American artist with Venezuelan roots Alex Da Corte creates works – large-scale installations, videos and paintings – with an immersive effect that visitors to his exhibitions can hardly escape from. They radiate the sensual qualities of his worlds and a subversive humour that always contains resonances of something melancholy or wistful. Da Corte works with everyday items and mass-produced objects that he finds at flea markets, in dollar shops, thrift and home improvement stores. He transforms their original functions and meanings when, for example, he re-explores their formal potential and presents them alongside works by artists who are friends or whom he admires, or uses them as sculptural objects or props in his videos and installations so they can unfold new symbolic power.

Alex Da Corte, born in 1980 in Camden (New Jersey, USA), lives and works in Philadelphia.