"The definition of being a modern person is to examine yourself, to reflect on yourself and to be a self-knowledgeable person."
"Human Object" (1981)
"Human Object," 1981
Plastic garbage bag, wood box, foam, rubber, plumbing pvc pipe, stool, sex toy, and blue velvet cloth, dimensions variable
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
Plastic garbage bag, wood box, foam, rubber, plumbing pvc pipe, stool, sex toy, and blue velvet cloth, dimensions variable
© Paul McCarthy
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich London
"In the process of creating the realism, an abstraction happens. And then it’s just a matter of stopping it. It’s a matter of recognition no different than what Duchamp would propose in a readymade."
-Paul McCarthy
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