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Isn't it nice how after so many decades Pop art and pop culture in general still holds true in the art world. Or to be more precise how tasteless materials and imagery are often considered at the same level as expensive or heirachially favored ones. Taste and refinement is boring. Alex da Corte seems to take particular pleasure in forming garish eye snogging miraculous hallucinations from multi-media works ranging from photography, sculpture, installation, text work and more besides. Its easy to see the initial glitzy splendour however there are less than subtle signs of discontent and angst once your sight has adjusted to the flood of celestial rainbowlight colored light. Dangerous serpentine animals (some realistically rendered, others scrappy like soft toys), young men trying to win back the hearts of their snubbed lady friends, good old fashioned trouble in paradise stuff. Rather than rampant nihilism da Corte seems to want to make us see the inherant beautyof our little fears and anxietes.
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Isn't it nice how after so many decades Pop art and pop culture in general still holds true in the art world. Or to be more precise how tasteless materials and imagery are often considered at the same level as expensive or heirachially favored ones. Taste and refinement is boring. Alex da Corte seems to take particular pleasure in forming garish eye snogging miraculous hallucinations from multi-media works ranging from photography, sculpture, installation, text work and more besides. Its easy to see the initial glitzy splendour however there are less than subtle signs of discontent and angst once your sight has adjusted to the flood of celestial rainbowlight colored light. Dangerous serpentine animals (some realistically rendered, others scrappy like soft toys), young men trying to win back the hearts of their snubbed lady friends, good old fashioned trouble in paradise stuff. Rather than rampant nihilism da Corte seems to want to make us see the inherant beautyof our little fears and anxietes. An Introduction to Fallen Over
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