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Alexandre da Cunha
Alexandre da Cunha (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1969) lives and works in London, UK. He holds a MA from Chelsea College of Art, London.
Da Cunha’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions, most recently at Royal Society of Sculptors and Camden Arts Centre, London; Pivô, São Paulo; Le Grand Café Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, among others.
UPCOMING
Alexandre da Cunha’s upcoming projects include a monumental kinetic sculpture for the new Underground station at Battersea Power Station, London (2021)
Alexandre da Cunha, Boom, installation view Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017
Alexandre da Cunha.
Grounded in a material aesthetic and ethic, Alexandre da Cunha makes sculpture and wall-mounted work using transformed everyday or found objects. Da Cunha has described his practice not as ‘making’ but as ‘pointing’. Pointing at existing objects in our everyday surroundings, and highlighting or revealing new and unexpected meanings within them. This approach has allowed him to unpick our preconceptions and instinctive responses to things and shift our perspective to new ways of seeing and understanding, giving way to a lush potential, not only in interpreting his work, but also in everything we subsequently see around us in the world.
Alexandre da Cunha, Nude XXVIII, 2019
Acrylic, straw hat, canvas, 80 x 80 x 20 cm (31 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 7 7/8 in)
Alexandre da Cunha, Tête à Tête (Painting II), 2018
Ropes, jute basket, acrylic, linen, 200 x 130 x 26 cm (78 3/4 x 51 1/8 x 10 1/4 in)
Alexandre da Cunha, Duplex, 2016
Carpet, bow pulpits, 400 x 500 x 60 cm (157 3/8 x 196 3/4 x 23 1/2 in)
Alexandre da Cunha, Morning XXIV, 2018. Bottle, bottle brush, pigment, cork, tambourine, 58 x 26 x 10 cm ( 22 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 4 in)
Alexandre da Cunha, Laissez Faire (Wet Look II), 2016
Gel acrylic, sand, beach towel, canvas, 46 x 51 x 5 cm ( 18 x 20 x 2 in)
Alexandre da Cunha, Mandala XI, 2016. Cotton mop, twine, linen, 200 x 200 x 4.1 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 1 5/8 in)
Alexandre da Cunha, installation view Plaza (Arcade), Fenway, Boston, 2017
