Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
We make money not art visits the Paul McCarthy retrospective in Belgium.
The Head Shop / Shop Head exhibition is rough, abject, violent, it grabs you by the guts, hovers between bad Hollywood slapstick and the restroom, it's a carnival of the vile and filthy but it is fascinating and mind-blowing. In fact, it must be one of the best exhibitions I've seen this year (together with History Will Repeat Itself (Part 1 and 2) which is currently running at the KW in Berlin.)
McCarthy's work throws at our face the dark side of The American Dream and western consumer society. S.M.A.K. presents a selection of the works he produced between 1966 and 2006, plus a series of new works which premiered in Ghent.
Exhibit trailer and a link to her Flickr photoset at the post.
Upon a too-quick first read I thought that Yoko had now corrupted the cute Beatle.
Although quickly disabused of this notion, I was hoping for more from the "Hoss & Pa do Euell Gibbons on PCP + Viagra" pics.
Posted by: shpx.ohfu at December 27, 2007 07:08 AM