Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union

Alexandre Da Cunha

SELECTED WORKS BY Alexandre Da Cunha

Alexandre Da Cunha
Nude II

2012

Linen, hats, gold thread

200 x 135 x 15 cm

Alexandre Da Cunha
Nude VI

2012

Hats, canvas, thread

220 x 300 x 17.5 cm

Alexandre Da Cunha
Cobalto/Burgundy

2004

Ceramic on rubber tyre

40 x 55 cm, plinth; 80 x 60 x 60 cm

Alexandre Da Cunha
Marron/Celeste

2004

Ceramic on rubber tyre

40 x 45 cm, plinth; 55 x 55 x 55 cm

Alexandre Da Cunha
Ruby/Magnolia

2004

Ceramic on rubber tyre

40 x 55 cm, plinth; 80 x 55 cm

OTHER RESOURCES

artfacts.net
Additional information and images – Alexandre da Cunha

artnet.com
Various other resources and images – Alexandre de Cunha

vilmagold.com
Vilma Gold, London, representing gallery for Alexandre da Cunha

culture24.org.uk
Some artists take inspiration from nature, and some from light: however, Alexandre da Cunha must have taken inspiration from the acquisition of a job lot of industrial mop heads. The mops are now woven together to form a giant net, which hangs from gallery floor to ceiling and runs in a curve through the middle of the space. Their arrangement encourages the viewer to walk around, to peer through, and to treat them like a work of art but no attempt has been made to disguise their original purpose. They are cleaning products.

gasworks.org.uk
In his sculptural works Alexandre da Cunha often incorporates found objects which could be considered ordinary and unspectacular. While speculating on modernist ideas of form and composition in his work, the artist also draws on the creative ingenuity and resourcefulness demonstrated in countries like his native Brazil where household products are often recycled and re-used to overcome the sparseness of new materials.