"At this time in my life, I’m ready to accept or own a kind of romance and melancholy or melodrama that I wasn’t ready to reveal before. It was always there in my inner life as an artist, but I was too afraid to share it."
"Complicated Pile" (2007)
"Complicated Pile," 2007
Vinyl-coated nylon fabric, fans and rigging, 620 1/8 x 1318 7/8 x 622 inches
Installation view at Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Photo by Philip de Gobert
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
Vinyl-coated nylon fabric, fans and rigging, 620 1/8 x 1318 7/8 x 622 inches
Installation view at Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Photo by Philip de Gobert
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
"There is something about being able to make a giant object that is ephemeral, in that it blows up, it’s full of air, and exists for a short period of time and then disappears."
-Paul McCarthy
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