BACON BREST AT ARTSPEAK

Alex Da Corte, Bacon Brest (installation view)
Alex Da Corte, Bacon Brest (installation view)

Alex Da Corte, Bacon Brest (installation view)
Extended until June 15th is Bacon Brest, Alex Da Corte's splendid solo exhibition at Artspeak gallery. Da Corte's sharply unusual form of cultural anthropology -- the items used in his sculptures and installations are found or bought -- is seductive in its visual brevity.

"Toying with ideas of taste, Da Corte proposes that failure is in fact an essential component of risk and rule breaking; and the celebration and acknowledgment of flaws in a milieu that scorns and dismisses imperfection can resuscitate a vernacular from moments previous. His sculptures maintain traces of their past lives, reviving lost narratives while exposing the capacity of mass-produced objects to be surrogates for power, sex and happiness."

Be sure to catch it before it all comes down. Artspeak is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 to 5pm.

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