Paul McCarthy

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Tent. Berlijn, Neue Nationalgalerie, 06-07-2012, 04-11-2012. - Monografie toont een overzicht van de installaties van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Paul McCarthy (Salt Lake City 1945) met het accent op de gelijknamige installatie waarin hij het fenomeen van het kunstenaarsatelier onderzoekt. - This handsome new book by Paul McCarthy highlights a major new work that refers to both the physical and the mental space of artistic creativity. "The Box" is McCarthy's reflection on the phenomenon of the artist's studio. As inconspicuous as any other plain moving box from the outside, the interior of the work reveals a striking, barely comprehensible diversity of things that inhabit this intimate and ever-changing incubator for artistic ideas. First, McCarthy constructed a model of a barn-like space in Pasadena, California, which served as his studio during the 1970s. Turned on its side 90 degrees, along with its approximately 3,000 objects--from a bulky steel cabinet to a pencil--the work compels a disorienting shift of perception in the viewer, which is impressively extended into the tactile quality of the book and its abundance of images