Paul McCarthy. Spin Offs: White Snow WS. Caribbean Pirates CP. Hauser & Wirth, 14 June – 25 July
With his show Spin Offs: White Snow WS. Caribbean Pirates CP., on view at the Hauser & Wirth gallery, American artist Paul McCarthy has exhibited the essence of two of his long-term projects. A great critic of consumerist culture and a master of sarcasm and irony, McCarthy began to develop White Snow back in 2009; it is his vision of the subtexts found within both the Grimm Brothers' fairytale and the commercialised, hypocritical 20th-century Disney Studios' version. Over time the project snowballed, encompassing sculptures, performances and other artistic forms of expression. It has led to White Snow and her best friends, Bambi (a deer) and Thumper (a rabbit), living life on their own terms in today's contemporary world – one which is often saturated with dark ambitions, its naïve and ethereal fairytale veil having been unabashedly ripped off. McCarthy began his Caribbean Pirates series – a provocative metaphor about values and morals in today's world – together with his son, Damon, in 2011.
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Photo: White Snow, Party, 2014
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