Alex Da Corte “Mr. Remember” at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

The artist occupies room with colour. For Louisiana’s West Wing, Da Corte has developed an all-encompassing and relentless scenography with personalized-produced floors, brightly coloured partitions, neon lights and unique scents. Inviting us into a parallel fact, an intensely visual knowledge.

The exhibition delivers collectively new and outdated will work (the oldest is from 2003) in an all-embracing scenography. Introducing colour to nearly just about every floor in Louisiana’s West Wing, Da Corte can make it extremely hard for the viewer to retain a safe and sound distance. The artist&#8217s physique of operate implies an idea of id as unfixed and continuously done using costumes, props and every little thing we consume. In Da Corte&#8217s rendition of daily life, every day is Halloween.

As the exhibition title indicates, “Mr. Try to remember,” which is a play on misremember, memory is a key idea for Da Corte. Via remembrance, the earlier joins the present, and offers paths for negotiating the foreseeable future.

The exhibition is the very first European study of Da Corte’s work, concentrating on the final 10 years, when the artist has amped up the formal complexity of his do the job. Da Corte has also produced many bold new performs for the event, though tailor made-developing the exhibition to in good shape every single element of the museum. Also, the sculpture As Lengthy as the Solar Lasts is displayed on the museum’s Calder Terrace.

Da Corte’s do the job spans a wide range of media, centring on sculpture, movie and installation. The artist employs an array of different resources and references—from small-cost, mass-produced objects to large-conclude style, from children’s Television set to the masters of artwork heritage, from French poetry to American pop audio.

Although some (or all) of the references could be common, Da Corte’s procedure provides them an edge, creating a sense of alienation or displacement. Shuttling amongst mild-hearted and dark, his function strikes a deeply emotional observe.

at Louisiana Museum of Fashionable Artwork, Humlebaek
right until January 8, 2023