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Life Cast

source: hauserwirth

‘Paul McCarthy: Life Cast’ also presents four female figures of uncanny verisimilitude. All are life casts of Elyse Poppers achieved through a series of painstaking processes at the leading edge of special effects technology. ‘T.G. Awake’ (T.G. is an acronym for ‘That Girl’ and refers to another feminine icon, aspiring actress namesake of a hit 1960s situation comedy) is comprised of three life-sized casts of the actress in similar sitting positions, with her legs spread open to varying degrees and eyes cast in different directions. Together these static variations reference the magical effect by which a series of still images can be joined together to become film. ‘T.G. Awake’ found its origins in drawings that McCarthy made of his wife Karen in the 1960s and relates to the first White Snow pencil drawings of 2009. The sculpture ‘T.G. Asleep’ presents the same woman prone, her body curved and hands cupped, a counterpoint to the dead figure of ‘Horizontal’.

The exhibition also includes ‘That Girl’, a four-channel video installation based in the process by which ‘T.G. Awake’ and ‘T.G. Asleep’ were achieved. Capturing the molding process, the model’s live movement studies, and the documentation of these through deliberately positioned cameras, this work brings viewers into the action through which the sculptures on view were made. ‘Life casting liberates the literal through a kind of unifying monotone,’ McCarthy has said. ‘It creates a different representation of the original thing that lets me explore where reality and abstraction intersect’.
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source: arthagtypepad

Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy has been exploring and reinterpreting the 19th century German folk tale, Schneewittchen, and the 1937 animated Disney adaptation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in a variety of mediums. In 2009, Hauser & Wirth presented a series of McCarthy’s drawings based on the “dark psychological and social undercurrents of the original 19th century tale” (from show’s press release) and the sanitized, Disney-fied retelling of the 20th century version. The gallery currently has on view The Dwarves, The Forests, a series of bronze sculptures of disfigured, grotesque dwarves that expands on the artist’s examination of the children’s stories.

Along with the dark, malformed dwarves with phalluses protuding from faces that appear to be melting or falling apart, McCarthy created a massive carved wooden sculpture of an orgasmic Snow White and grinning Dopey (referencing Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture Transverberation of Saint Teresa) and two maquettes of mystical forest landscapes that serve as models for sets for performances and films the artist is planning for the future.

While inspired by the German folk tale and the Disney story, McCarthy adds a personal touch to the works by combining his “memories and impressions of the deep forests and magical clearings on his own property above the Mojave Desert.” McCarthy’s dark, intense, nightmarish take on the Snow White stories is way beyond Fractured Fairy Tales. It has positively evolved from his 2009 show of drawings.
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source: rogallery

Paul McCarthy is a seminal West Coast artist. Born in 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah, McCarthy is known for his raw, visceral work which has taken form in a wide variety of media (photography, painting, performance, sculpture, video, installation, drawing, and painting) ranging in scale from monumental to intimate. Playing on illusions and cultural myths, McCarthy’s work often embodies obsessive activities and challenges expected physical orientation. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (2003); Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (2002); Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (2001); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2000); and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2000). He currently lives and works in Altadena, CA.

McCarthy comes out of a generation of artists who responded to Minimalism and Conceptual art of the 1960s by developing an approach that sought to reinstate the connection between artistic activity and social reality. He has gained a reputation as a sharp analyst of US society at its most media-crazed and consumption-oriented.

His work encompasses a broad scope of mediums, from the performances and videos he began staging in the 1970s, to the installations, sculptures and drawings he continues to produce.

McCarthy’s work was brought to international attention in the exhibition, ‘Helter Skelter’ at MoCA, Los Angeles in 1992. Solo exhibitions of McCarthy’s work include, “Dimensions of the Mind” at Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St Gallen, Switzerland in 1999; “Paul McCarthy” at MoCA, Los Angles, The New Museum, NY, Villa Arson, Nice, and the Tate Liverpool in 2000; “Paul McCarthy” at the Tate Modern, London in 2003; and “Brain Box Dream Box” at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and the Contemporary Art Center in Malaga, Spain in 2004.
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source: ayanamireiblogso-netnejp

ポール・マッカーシー （ Paul McCarthy）　

ポール・マッカーシー / Paul McCarthy (米国)1945年ソルトレイクシティ生まれ。ロサンゼルス在住。1973年南カルフォルニア大学修士課程（ロサンゼルス）を卒業。70年代以降、絵具、ケチャップ、マヨネーズ、体液を頭や体になすりつけ、性、排泄、暴力などのタブーに挑んだ過激なパフォーマンスや映像作品で有名になる。漫画やディズニーのキャラクター、ハリウッド映画、スーパーマーケットなどアメリカの消費文化のイメージや言語を流用し、規範的な世界をグロテスクで混沌としたものに変えてしまう。