Exhibition
in New York, NY / United States
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- Alexandre da Cunha: Vitral (Panorama), 2024, shovel handles, t-shirts, cleaning cloth, blanket, dishcloths, fabric cut outs, 31 1/8 x 132 5/8 x 2 3/8 in, 79 x 337 x 6 cm
James Cohan is pleased to present “These Days”, an exhibition of recent work by Alexandre da Cunha, his first exhibition with James Cohan.
Alexandre da Cunha’s sculptures and wall-mounted works uncover the poetry and beauty of everyday objects, liberating them from their cultural uses even as he draws forth their essential connections with patterns of consumption and labor. The artist plays within and against the language of art historical movements such as Arte Povera and Tropicália to craft elegant, vibrantly inventive propositions for alternative modes of viewing and understanding.
Da Cunha’s compositions, which are rooted in the history of the readymade, are formed through carefully balanced relationships between color, form, and material, generating a fractilated universe of rich association between art-making, daily life, and philosophical concerns. Through the symbolic transformation of recognisable functional objects into formal sculptures and reliefs, da Cunha’s work oscillates between connection and disconnection from their source materials’ everyday and often throw-away status.
Gallery hours Tues-Sat 10 am – 6 pm
Exhibition Duration 25 October – 21 December 2024
Location:
James Cohan Gallery
48 Walker Street
10013 New York, NY
United States
