ampampquotA great and unlikely success story Da Corte creates funny and therapeutic works in the hope of easing the exquisite pain of modern life.ampampquot New York TimesThis comprehensive monograph celebrates the acclaimed Philadelphiabased installation artist Alex Da Corte born 1980 famed for his showstopping 2021 Roof Garden Commission for the Met As Long as the Sun Lasts. Da Cortes DayGlo works are distinctly rooted in traditional American arts and culturetellingly as a teenager he planned to become an animator for Disneyand the artist himself often appears in his films impersonating iconic figures such as Popeye the Statue of Liberty Fred Rogers or Eminem. Throughout the pop flavor of Da Cortes aesthetics is mixed with a satirical existentialism his works often combine sadness and effortless play connecting our sense of self with consumer culturefrom the films we watch to the objects we buy give and throw away.Published for a major retrospective at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and documenting all of his major works to date Alex Da Corte Mr.