Kermit the Frog, Even

Alex Da Corte transforms the familiar language of popular culture into vivid, emotionally layered works. In Kermit the Frog, Even (2018), he revisits an incident from the 1991 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, when an enormous, helium-filled balloon in the shape of Kermit the Frog snagged on a tree branch, tore open, and slumped half-deflated along Fifth Avenue. While the parade marched on, Kermit’s fall drastically affected the mood of the celebration. Recreated here as an inflatable sculpture, Da Corte’s Kermit appears suspended in a never-ending moment of defeat. Between humor and melancholy, the piece embodies the artist’s interest in how cultural icons absorb and reveal our collective anxieties. Born in 1980 in Camden, Alex Da Corte lives and works in Philadelphia. Art Basel Public Program Presented by Sadie Coles HQ

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