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Alex Da Corte

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


 

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Alex Da Corte: Mouse Museum

LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Edited by William Pym. Text by Paulina Pobocha, Hiromi Kurosawa, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Arne Glimcher.

In the ultimate homage to Claes Oldenburg, Alex Da Corte recreates his Mouse Museum project with his own unique twist

Boxed, 19.25 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 335 color / 5 bw. | 11/19/2024 | Awaiting stock
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Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember

LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, William Pym, Alex Da Corte. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Bruce Hainley, Delia Solomons, Alex Da Corte, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Steven Zultanski, Derek McCormack, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, William Pym. Interview by Mathias Ussing Seeberg.

“A great and unlikely success story, Da Corte creates funny and therapeutic works in the hope of easing the ‘exquisite pain’ of modern life.” –New York Times

Clth, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color / 50 duotone. | 3/28/2023 | In stock
$45.00


Alex Da Corte: Chicken

DANCING FOXES PRESS
Edited by Alex Da Corte, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder. Text by Erica Battle and Amanda Sroka, David Breslin, Rosalyn Drexler, Kim Nyugen, William Pym, Sid Sachs, et al.

Documentation and testimony from Da Corte's 2020 reinvention of a classic 1960s happening

Hbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 140 pgs / 100 color. | 5/16/2023 | In stock
$29.95


Alex da Corte: True Life

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited by Claus Due, William Pym. Text by Hilton Als, Charlie Fox, Martine Syms, William Pym, Moritz Wesseler.

Eminem as emblem of America throughout Alex Da Corte’s oeuvre

Hbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 316 pgs / 1225 color. | 12/15/2020 | In stock
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Alex Da Corte: Marigolds

KARMA, NEW YORK
Text by Eugenia Collier, Tausif Noor, John Canemaker.

Alex Da Corte’s foam wall pieces celebrate the zest and color of cartoon aesthetics

Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 52 pgs / 18 color. | 1/21/2020 | Out of stock
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Alex Da Corte: Mouse MuseumAlex Da Corte: Mouse Museum

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Edited by William Pym. Text by Paulina Pobocha, Hiromi Kurosawa, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Arne Glimcher.

Designed as a “mutant facsimile” of the 1979 Rijksmuseum/Museum Ludwig catalog for Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing, Mouse Museum is a codex for the eponymous installation by Alex Da Corte (born 1980). Oldenburg’s original installation, created between 1965 and the late 1970s, is a Mickey Mouse–shaped room filled with ephemera the artist collected over the years. Da Corte, a fervent admirer of Oldenburg’s, updates his original concept for the 21st century, using his own collection of accumulated objects including glass fruit, McDonald’s Happy Meal toys and fake flowers. The room itself is shaped like one of Mickey Mouse’s ears: in this case, the left ear, referencing Van Gogh. Documentation, inspirations and reflections presented in the artist’s voice form an unprecedented picture of both an artwork and a holistic contemporary practice. Each object in Mouse Museum (Van Gogh Ear) is photographed for a total of over 300 color images.



PUBLISHER
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Boxed, 19.25 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 335 color / 5 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 125   

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ISBN 9788793659773 TRADE
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STATUS: Forthcoming | 11/19/2024

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Alex Da Corte: ChickenAlex Da Corte: Chicken

Published by Dancing Foxes Press.
Edited by Alex Da Corte, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder. Text by Erica Battle and Amanda Sroka, David Breslin, Rosalyn Drexler, Kim Nyugen, William Pym, Sid Sachs, et al.

In early March 2020, on the cusp of the COVID-19 shutdown, an audience gathered to witness a reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s happening, Chicken, by Philadelphia-based artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980). Performed at the site of Kaprow’s original—the Gershman Y at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia—Da Corte’s first live performance reimagined Kaprow’s chaotic event, which had been orchestrated in 1962 under the auspices of the first Pop art exhibition on the East Coast. While the focus of activity for the performers of Kaprow’s Chicken involved the hawking of live and boiled chickens and their eggs, Da Corte’s performers frantically peddled exquisite yellow orbs made from a variety of materials that represented the moon.
Including sketches and reproductions of the objects and costumes constructed for Da Corte’s revision, as well as performance images, scripts, essays and personal accounts reflecting on the event’s impact and significance over the ensuing year, this publication becomes a living document of a moment in time.



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Dancing Foxes Press

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Hardcover, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 140 pgs / 100 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2021 p. 141   

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Alex Da Corte: Mr. RememberAlex Da Corte: Mr. Remember

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, William Pym, Alex Da Corte. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Bruce Hainley, Delia Solomons, Alex Da Corte, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Steven Zultanski, Derek McCormack, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, William Pym. Interview by Mathias Ussing Seeberg.

This comprehensive monograph celebrates the acclaimed Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980), famed for his show-stopping 2021 Roof Garden Commission for the Met, As Long as the Sun Lasts. Da Corte’s Day-Glo works are distinctly rooted in traditional American arts and culture—tellingly, as a teenager he planned to become an animator for Disney—and the artist himself often appears in his films, impersonating iconic figures such as Popeye, the Statue of Liberty, Fred Rogers or Eminem. Throughout, the pop flavor of Da Corte’s aesthetics is mixed with a satirical existentialism: his works often combine sadness and effortless play, connecting our sense of self with consumer culture—from the films we watch to the objects we buy, give and throw away.
Published for a major retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and documenting all of his major works to date, Alex Da Corte: Mr. Remember matches the artist’s high-production, ultra-chromatic sensibility in its gorgeous production, with a three-color cloth binding, silver foil on the cover, a paperback volume sewn into the book and an abundance of riotous color throughout, with more than 100 pages of installation views from previous exhibitions.



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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Clth, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color / 50 duotone.

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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 26   

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Alex Da Corte: MarigoldsAlex Da Corte: Marigolds

Published by Karma, New York.
Text by Eugenia Collier, Tausif Noor, John Canemaker.

Published for Alex Da Corte’s (born 1981) 2019 solo exhibition with Karma Gallery, this volume features the eponymous short story by Eugenia Collier, as well as two newly commissioned texts by writer Tausif Noor and animator and historian John Canemaker.



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Karma, New York

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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 52 pgs / 18 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 174   

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ISBN 9781949172287 FLAT40
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Alex da Corte: True LifeAlex da Corte: True Life

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited by Claus Due, William Pym. Text by Hilton Als, Charlie Fox, Martine Syms, William Pym, Moritz Wesseler.

This book exhaustively documents Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte’s (born 1980) preoccupation with the musician Eminem across four exhibitions. From Detroit to Cologne, from an artist-run space to a major international museum, Da Corte’s work parallels Eminem’s career through his thirties, reappearing, evolving alongside America, explaining more of himself each time. Eminem’s place in culture and his role in Da Corte’s practice, as well as the larger story of American identity, is explored through recent and commissioned essays by Hilton Als, Charlie Fox, William Pym, Martine Syms and Moritz Wesseler, as well as manipulated found texts and an extensive Q&A with Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth, whose 1982 work Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger strongly informs the discussion. True Life is both an uncompromising reference book and a work of fantasy.



PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 10.25 in. / 316 pgs / 1225 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 18   

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ISBN 9783960988663 FLAT40
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Alex Da Corte: A Man Full of TroubleAlex Da Corte: A Man Full of Trouble

Published by Karma, New York.

Philadelphia-based Alex Da Corte’s (born 1980) new publication takes its name from the pre-Revolutionary tavern that stands in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic district. Using the “privy,” an archeological pit located near the A Man Full of Trouble tavern, as inspiration, Da Corte presents the world within such a portal; a place where memories, objects, past and present aggregate and reconstitute.



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Karma, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 327 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 185   

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ISBN 9781942607601 FLAT40
List Price: $40.00 CAD $54.00 GBP £35.00

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Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson: EasternsportsAlex Da Corte and Jayson Musson: Easternsports

Published by ICA Philadelphia/Karma, New York.
Text by Kate Kraczon.

Longtime friends and first-time collaborators Alex Da Corte (born 1980) and Jayson Musson (born 1977) created a major new commission for ICA Philadelphia in 2014. Nearly two and a half hours in length, this in-the-round video installation was scripted by Jayson Musson, directed by Alex Da Corte, and scored by composer Devonté Hynes. Easternsports is an amorality tale for the digital age. Both deadly serious and heartbreakingly flippant, it embraces Gap commercials and grand jury rulings, middle-class aspirations and global imperialism. And it transforms a decade-long conversation between Musson and Da Corte into a work awash in the neon glow of their American milieu.

PUBLISHER
ICA Philadelphia/Karma, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 195   

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ISBN 9781942607168 FLAT40
List Price: $35.00 CAD $47.50 GBP £30.00

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