Glaze (Savana)

2005

47.42H inches

Alexandre da Cunha

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Glaze (Savana) (2005) is an assemblage of found materials: a car wheel, a tire, and a wooden plinth of the type traditionally used to display sculpture. It directly engages with the readymade, a subject that Alexandre de Cunha takes up throughout his practice, often inflecting it with a tropical, and South American–inspired materiality and painterly style that could potentially come across as a stereotype. Here, da Cunha transforms the component parts into a composition that highlights often-overlooked materials of artistic production and cultural mass-production.

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Alexandre da Cunha reinvents found objects in surprising ways that combine the material characteristics of Arte Povera with the concerns and techniques of painting. Da Cunha’s work often features flags—either as a found material per se or as a constructed form—that reflect the artist’s interest in issues of nationality, governmental politics, allegiance, and culture.

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Colors:

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• tropical.s.01
• ready-made.n.01
• stereotype.n.01
• reclaim.v.02
• average.s.02
• collection.n.01
• brazil
• concrete
• political
• assemblage
• political minimalism
• abstract
• abstract sculpture
• brazilian