06 Nov – 20 Dec 2025
New York City, USA
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Matthew Marks presents Alex Da Corte: Parade, the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York in more than five years, spanning both of the gallery’s West 22nd Street spaces. The show features eleven new sculptures set within a carefully staged narrative environment, reflecting Da Corte’s interest in how images from popular culture and art history shape contemporary life.
Though Da Corte works fluidly across video, performance, painting, and drawing, Parade centers sculpture — the medium he considers the grounding force of his practice, ‘because… it has a side you cannot see. And that is uniquely human.’
The exhibition comprises three chambers separated by thresholds of art historical reference. Da Corte himself appears throughout the installation in life-size sculptural form: as the Pink Panther recast as a house painter; as Popeye perched on a brick piano, quietly contemplating a pumpkin; and as a figure reclining in a reconstruction of Paul Thek’s legendary 1967 installation The Tomb.
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