By counterpoising and melding materials, and by establishing dialogues between them, repertoires and objects of different origins and destined for different uses, Alexandre da Cunha operates in a critical manner within a value scale that joins Brazilian pop culture and modernism, the decorative arts and British pop culture.
Read MoreRecent solo shows include: Portal, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil (2020); Thomas Dane, Naples (2020 - upcoming); Duologue – collaboration with Phillip King, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England (2018); Boom, Pivô, São Paulo (2017); Mornings, Office Baroque, Brussels (2017); Free Fall, Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2016); Amazons, CRG Gallery, New York (2015); Real, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2015).
Among Da Cunha’s public intervention are works commissioned by Art on the Underground for Battersea Subway Station, Northern Line Extension, London (2021); by Samuels & Associates, Pierce Boston Collection, Boston (2017); MCA Chicago, part of the Plaza Project (2015), and Rochaverá Corporate Towers, in São Paulo (2015).
Important group shows include: Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire village of Fulmer, UK (2019); Abstracción Textil, Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá (2018); Soft Power, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2016); 'Brazil, Beleza?! Contemporary Brazilian Sculpture', Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (2016); British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2015); Cruzamentos –Contemporary Art in Brazil, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2014); 'When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes', Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2013); 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012).
His work is part of the following collections: Tate Collection, England; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil; CIFO Cisneros Collection, USA; Zabludowicz Collection, England; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil; FAMA, Itu, Brazil.
Text courtesy Luisa Strina.
