Paul McCarthy - Whitney Museum

Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, discusses Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement. This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most important American artists of his generation. The installations, films, photographs, and drawings on view focus on a central element of McCarthy's practice: the way the body is destabilized through dislocations of architectural space. The disorientation that threads though all of the works shown here is at once formal, corporeal, and psychological. The screens, projectors, and rotating cameras of Spinning Room place the viewer at the center of hypnotic environment whereas the moving walls and doors of Bang Bang Room collapse our notion of stable architectural space. In Madhouse the walls and chair spinning at varying speeds conjure a similar state of physical and mental disorientation.

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[SailorBarsoom]

Uh, yeah...

Nah, Paul wasn't doing any drugs. ^_~

Just kidding. I actually think this is kind of cool.

[DYNODRUM]

wow ,1971 conceived then ; Trip of a mind. wish it was then seen/but seems a bit retro so.. Relevant :

[jpapare]

Great view and wonderful intro to this work. Thank you. (I do think the curatorial world needs to explore talent with New York accents. Just a token New Yorker would be great. Don't bother commenting about this; I know it's the kind of unpopular point of view that shouldn't even be whispered.)

[GumboClubShow]

this rules

[mightyhighrocks]

tRIPPY!