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Untitled(Nude) Following the right hand of - Lana Turner (in the postman always ring twice) 2005 Untitled 80(Terracotta) 1998 Untitled 145 (Chanel) 2000 Untitled 96 (Desk) 1998 Untitled (Pirate) 2005 I love Melancholy 2000 - 2005 Disneyland 2004 Rise 2005 Vesuvius N°1 2005 Dionysos N°3 2005 Tommy girl 2003 Win Win situation 2003 Pink cher 2002 Embroidering. Veruschka was here 2001 The Balad of Gary Gilmore 1999 Forhead 1997 Bujar and Meg 2003 Dylan 2002 Romantic 2002 Fence 2002 Mamphis 2 2004 Vb26 1997 I miss the comfort of being sad 2005 Xed 2004 The flag 1988 Untitled (Serie Tulsa) 1980 Untiltled (Serie Tulsa) 1980 Vampire portraits (bmx boys) 2003 Heidi II 2003 Only God can judge me 2004 Cosmic Landscape N 1 2004 The first intellectual 2000 Stereomongrel 2005 Joanna Laughing,Hotel Paris 1999 Tatoo 2001 17 boys I whispered 17 secret nothing words to 17 times today 2005 Epic slava 1999 Pink space 1995 816 1972 Boy in blue raincoat 2 2001 Dash cutting lines 2000 Dan and Eric 2001 Untitled 2005 Crisco 2002 Brown eyes 2003 Self-portrait (Actress) after Jodie Foster 2 1996 Untitled (Tamago) 2000 Looking up,not down 1999 Untitled (Man's face) 2004 Common sense (Priest) 1999 Miss American legion 1964 I don't live here anymore 2001 The brothers (A.M. & M.M.) 2003 Live in the port coquitlam 2003 Nash 2005 Che meraviglia 1997 Dark Garden II 2003 Self-Portrait 2000 Passing and posing 2003

Paul McCarthy

The Bavarian Deer

1999

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McCarthy is considered among the most influential and revolutionary American contemporary artists. His works are about human degradation and perversion. Since the beginning of the '70s, when body art was gaining significance, his performances dug the themes of masturbation, sodomy and bestiality, using fake blood and minced meat just as in splatter cinema. These operations describe, deforming them, in carnival fashion, the American way of life fictitiously moralistic and absurdly consumeristic, the sneered but also main subject of his work. Many of his works discredit the myth of childhood, creating an atmosphere that explores the distance between the sweet world of Disney and the reality lived by young people. McCarthy materializes the most hidden fears, obsessions and bestiality creating a hybrid reality in which the characteristic traits of contemporary society become the psycopathies and hallucinations. In this work the artist seems to materialize and immortalize the moment when the animal, a deer, symbol of childhood sweetness and ingenuity is about to be killed by the hunter. Once again human bestiality...