Alexandre da Cunha

James Cohan is pleased to present These Days, an exhibition of recent work by Alexandre da Cunha on view from October 25 - December 21, 2024, at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. These Days is da Cunha's first exhibition with James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Friday, October 25 from 6-8 PM. 

Alexandre da Cunha’s sculptures and wall-mounted works explore and subvert the relationship between the cultural use of objects and their essential connections with society, consumption, production and labor. The artist plays within and against the language of art historical movements such as Arte Povera and Tropicália to craft elegant, vibrantly inventive propositions for alternative modes of viewing and understanding. Da Cunha’s practice points to the history of the readymade and the use of found objects in sculpture while simultaneously–through an artful use of color, balance, and shape–distilling techniques most often employed by abstract painters. Through the symbolic transformation of recognisable functional objects into formal sculptures and reliefs, da Cunha’s work oscillates between connection and disconnection from their source materials’ everyday and often throw-away status.