Paul McCarthy

Berlin

Berlin-based Schinkel Pavillon is currently showing a Paul McCarthy exhibition. The American artist is mainly known for his sexually oriented plastic figures as demonstrated with his gigantic ‘Tree’ on the place Vandôme during last years edition of Paris-based art fair FIAC when he made headlines in 2014. For his exhibition at the Schinkel Pavillon, McCarthy concentrates on the body image and perception.

As a teacher of art performance, video and installation at UCLA, McCarthy uses a wide range of media to perform his show. The core of the exhibition is a replica of his ‘Horizontal’ (2012) piece, which realistically and faithfully represents the artist own naked body lying on a table. Thus, he interrogates the society taboos through an obvious and shameless rough nudity. On the ground floor, the video installation ‘That Girl T.G. Drawing Table – Drawing’ (2011-2013) plays again with the nude body, his representation, apprehension and expectation, this time through the physique of a woman, hence interrogating the figure and the space.

Paul McCarthy, Horizontal, 2012 Platinum silicone, fiberglass, aluminum, stainless steel, natural hair, pigment, paint, wood door with laminate, wood sawhorses 102,9 × 268 × 90,5 cm Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Courtesy Paul McCarthy and Hauser & Wirth

Pavillon Schinkel

September 12 – November 22, 2015

Oberwallstraße 1
10117 Berlin
Germany

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