[Alex Da Corte] RUBBER PENCIL DEVIL (DARK GREEN, 2023) by Alex Da Corte

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A collection of works by American artist Alex Da Corte. This book is the 4th in a series that is still in production, cataloging the 57 video works " Rubber Pencil Devil " produced in 2018 and releasing them in the form of a flipbook.

" Rubber Pencil Devil " is a highly stylized 2 drawing inspiration from a variety of iconic and cultural sources such as old television footage, 20th century animation, queer and eccentric American culture and customs. It is a work in which a video of 40 minutes is looped. It's almost hypnotic, with slow, gesticulating performances of well-known and popular characters. These characters are immersed in a saturated world of everyday objects, domestic symbols, and familiar rules. The author himself is one of the performers in the film, dressed as various food puppets and iconic characters such as the Pink Panther, Sylvester Cat, Fred Rogers and the Devil. According to the author, " Rubber Pencil Devil " is a "total work of art" (Gesamtkunstwerk), combining elements of video, music and architecture to give the viewer an immersive experience. It is a suggestive work for avant-garde artists, pop singers, entertainers and manga characters.

By manipulating and reusing these based on his deep knowledge of consumer culture and art history, the artist explores human desires and alienation as themes with destructive humor and an introspective spirit. there is Intellectual, provocative, colorful and absurd fantasy worlds not only critically capture contemporary reality, but also reconstruct normative power systems and create new ideas and new beginnings. I am trying to

This book includes an exhibition jointly held with the Hammer Museum in California from July to September 2016 at Art + Practice (A+P) in California, USA. Also includes an essay by Jamillah James, senior curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / MCA, who was in charge of curating the event "A SEASON IN HE'LL" .

I believe I am in hell, so I am in hell now.
&mdash Arthur Rimbaud (From " Night in Hell" )

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