Paul McCarthy
dal 16/6/2006 al 2/9/2006
Segnalato da
16/6/2006
Paul McCarthy
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Head Shop /Shop Head. More than 2,000 square metres will be devoted to showing works ranging from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition includes both new, never previously shown works, and older works from his early career. The artist presents a new reading of older works and work sketches.
Head Shop /Shop Head
“You may understand my actions as vented culture.
You may understand my actions as vented fear."
Paul McCarthy
This summer, Moderna Museet features one of the biggest presentations ever before of
the artist Paul McCarthy. More than 2,000 square metres will be devoted to showing
works ranging from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition includes both new,
never previously shown works, and older works from his early career. His 9-metre
Daddies Ketchup Inflatable is exhibited above the museum entrance.
Rather than organising the exhibition in conventional chronological order, the
artist presents a new reading of older works and work sketches that will in some
cases be realised for the first time at Moderna Museet. In addition to 60 films
spanning his entire oeuvre, his early sculpture Dead H (1968) and the installations
The Trunks (1992-93), The Garden (1992) and Bossy Burger (1991) will be in place.
One of the prime features will be the mega project Frigate with Caribbean Pirates
(2005).
In connection with the exhibition, the museum is producing a richly illustrated
688-page catalogue with essays by Thomas McEvilley, Iwona Blazwick and an essay by
the Moderna Museet curator Magnus af Petersens. The fully illustrated catalogue is
published by Steidl.
Moderna Museet
Island of Skeppsholmen - Stockholm