Paul McCarthy Short
Biography:
His performances, videos,
multimedia environments, sculptures, installations,
photographies and drawings from the late sixties on
focus on the discussion of the mass-media and the
family as being the repressive determinants of an
american society marked by clichés, sex and
violence. McCarthy´s favourite materials for
taboo-breaking arrangements like ôHot Dogö 1974,
especially in the seventies, are fluids or victuals
like ketchup, sauces, mustard, hot dogs etc. which
he uses to penetrate his body in various ways and
sexual encounters oscillating between uncouth
slapstick and masochistic self-mutilation. Since the
eighties McCarthy developes hybrid sculptures,
moving figures, and simulated environments in the
early ninties resulting among others in the scenical
installation ôThe Gardenö. McCarthy´s captious
questioning of sexuality, corporeality, and
psychological shifts in a culture dominated by TV
and Hollywood in the last years attracted broadest
international attention. His work was
presented in exhibitions like ôfemininmasculinö,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1995, ôCocido y
Crudoö, Centro de Arte Renia Sofia, Madrid 1994, ôOh
boy, it´s a girlö, Kunstverein München 1994, and
ôHelter Skelterö, Museum of Contemporary Art Los
Angeles 1992.
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