.:. art / Napoleon in rags
Alex Da Corte
April 9 through July 20, 2024
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World Leader Pretend is a brilliant and spectacular exhibition of paintings and installations by Da Corte (Camden, NJ, 1980), a Venezuelan-American artist, It has an imaginary interview with Napoleon on his deathbed as its subtext. "Rest your mind, dear Emperor. Let us carry on, let us think of more vital things. It is good for you to imagine Spring, imagine flowers, imagine life. It will be good ...".
.:. Da Corte's works were exhibited already at Marconi's in 2015. The artist also starred at the Venice Biennale of 2019, the Louisiana in Humlebæk, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art of Kanazawa..