Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945), is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and then continued studying at the University of Utah until 1969. He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving the BFA in painting. In 1972 he studied film, video, and arts at the University of Southern California receiving the MFA. From 1982 to 2002 he taught the performing arts, video, installations, and history of performing arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. McCarthy currently works mainly in videos and sculptures.
Originally trained formally as a painter, McCarthy's main interest lies in the daily activities and chaos created by them. Much of his work in the late 1960s, such as Mountain Bowling (1969) and Hold Apple at Your Armpit (1970) is similar to the work of Happenings founder Allan Kaprow, with whom McCarthy owns professional relationship.
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McCarthy's works include performances, installations, films and "paintings as action". His point of reference is rooted, on the one hand, in typical American matters, such as Disneyland, B-Movies, Soap Operas and Comics - he is a critical analyst of mass media and American society driven by consumerism and hypocrisy, double standards and repression. On the other hand, it is a European avant-garde art that has the greatest influence on the language of its artistic form. These influences include the Lost Art Movement, Joseph Beuys, Sigmund Freud, Samuel Beckett, and Vienna Actionism.
Despite his own statement, the events of the Viennese activists he knew in the 1970s, he saw a clear distinction between Vienna's actions and his own appearance:
"Vienna is not Los Angeles My work is out of childrens television in Los Angeles I do not go through Catholicism and World War II as a teenager I do not live in a European environment People make references to the art of Vienna without really questioning the facts that there is a big difference between soy sauce and blood, I never think of my work as shamanistic, my job is more about being a clown than a shaman. "
In his early work, McCarthy attempted to break the limitations of painting by using the body as a brush or even a canvas; later, he incorporated body fluids or food in lieu of his works. In a 1974 video, Sauce , he painted with his head and face, "smearing his body with paint and then with tomato sauce, mayonnaise or raw meat and, in one case, dirt." This is clearly similar to the work of Vienna activist, GÃÆ'¼nter Brus. Likewise, his work evolved from painting into transgressive performing art, a psychosexual event intended to fly in the face of social conventions, testing the emotional boundaries of both artists and viewers. An example of this is his 1976 work, Stupid Class , in which McCarthy throws himself around a soy sauce spread across the University of California, San Diego to a daze and hurt himself. He then vomited a few times and put a Barbie doll into his rectum. The piece ended when the audience could no longer see his performance. Concerned that University guards must clean up the mess, graduate students Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia, along with art historian Moira Roth, spend several hours cleaning up soy sauce and vomit. Maksymowicz can be seen on the back left of the documentary photo of the event.
McCarthy's work in the 1990s, such as
McCarthy's transcription with Johanna Spyri's novel Heidi caused her 1992 video and installation, Heidi: Trauma Central Centers of Life and the Negative Media Abuse Discourse Zone , where she collaborated with Mike Kelley.
Pirates Caribbean (2001-05), alludes to Johnny Depp's movie franchise and Disneyland's interest.
During the summer of 2008, the Paul McCarthy Complex Shit complex, installed at the Paul Klee Center base in Bern, Switzerland, took off in the wind, lowered electricity, broke greenhouse windows and windows in children's homes. This incident is widely reported internationally through news outlets in several languages ​​with headlines like "Huge turd catastrophe for museum" and "Rise in the sky: is it a plane or a plane?"
McCarthy has created some Christmas-themed works. Through them, he combines his impressions about the dreary aesthetic and the real meaning of Christmas. In 2001, he created Santa Claus for the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Originally, it was intended to be placed next to a concert hall in the famous local "Schouwburgplein" square, but it never existed. This is due to the controversy surrounding the statue: This work is seen by many citizens as a sexual connotation, and, therefore, is also called "Butt Plug Gnome" everyday. The original location was rejected by residents and retailers, as well as several other proposed locations. However, on November 28, 2008, the venue received a permanent destination on the Eendrachtsplein square, in a trail project.
In November 2009, an exhibit called "White Snow" was held at Hauser & amp; Wirth New York, featuring mixed media works McCarthy, centered on the Snow White character of Disney Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
In October 2014, McCarthy launched Tree at Place VendÃÆ''me in Paris. The inflatable statue, standing 24 meters tall, is said to resemble a large green butt plug. This caused controversy among residents, who believed that their historical square had been tarnished. Within two days the piece has been dumped by someone, and McCarthy stated that he did not want it repaired or replaced. He also confessed to Le Monde that his accidental butt plugs, and "jokes".
References
Further reading
- Rugoff, Ralph, Kristine Stiles, Massimiliano Gioni, Robert Storr. Paul McCarthy. London: Phaidon Press, 2016.
- Blazwick, Iwona. Paul McCarthy: Head Store. Head Store. Stockholm: Steidl/Moderna Museet, 2006.
- Bronfen, Elisabeth. Paul McCarthy: Lala Land. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005.
- Sauerlander, Kathrin. Paul McCarthy: Video 1970-1997. Cologne: Walther KÃÆ'¶nig, 2004.
- Glennie, Sarah. Paul McCarthy in Tate Modern: Head of Block and Daddies Big Head. London: Tate, 2003.
- Phillips, Lisa. Paul McCarthy. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001.
- Monk, Philip. Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Work. Toronto: Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Center, 2000.
- Rugoff, Ralph, Kristine Stiles, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio. Paul McCarthy. London: Phaidon Press, 1996.
- Sherer, Daniel. "Heidi in Loos, Ornaments and Crimes in Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy Heidi." PIN-UP 3 (2008), 59-62.
- Zebracki, Martin. Involves geography of public art: residents, 'Butt Plug Gnome' and local. Social & amp; Cultural Geography 13 (7), 735-758
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