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Paul McCarthy
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Description
- Paul McCarthy
- Santa Octopussy, White, No Balls, 4 Tentacles, 3 Heads
- urethane
- 18 5/8 by 18 1/4 by 14 in. 47.3 by 46.4 by 35.6 cm.
- Executed in 2004, this work is unique.
Provenance
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Catalogue Note
Which images are real ones, in a world that is increasingly defined in virtual terms? We are so endlessly swiped with images that we can no longer tell whether any given image is hypothetical or dead serious. Paul McCarty makes images that are unambiguous. Unambiguously false. He also supplies the machinery that enables them to proliferate indefinitely. And yet this kaleidoscope gives us a way of knowing false image for what they are.
- Eva Meyer-Hermann (Paul McCarthy, Dimensions of the Mind. The Denial and the Desire in the Spectacle, Exh. Cat., St. Gallen, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, 1999, n.p.)
- Eva Meyer-Hermann (Paul McCarthy, Dimensions of the Mind. The Denial and the Desire in the Spectacle, Exh. Cat., St. Gallen, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, 1999, n.p.)