Alex Da Corte – Borderland State Illumination (Pink Pavor Nocturnus) (2016)

Exhibition poster from Louisiana's major exhibition of new acquisitions, Illumination, in 2016. The brightly colored work, Borderland State Illumination (Pink Pavor Nocturnus)(2016) is by American artist, Alex Da Corte (b. 1980), who works with the inherent qualities of things—things he finds and transforms into his spaces.

Alex Da Corte possesses a superb feeling for the color and form potential of materials and for their symbolic language detached from functions. Without a more precise plan with the objects, Da Corte risks the whole store, and according to his own statement must give in to the tension, failure and violence of fear.

Illumination was a lavish presentation of contemporary art from around the world. With works by Gerhard Richter, William Kentridge, Cindy Sherman, Alex Da Corte, Franz West, Catherine Opie, Jeff Wall and many more—including several young debutants in the museum's collection—Illumination was, at the time of the exhibition, the museum's largest presentation of new art to date in the collection.