{"id":5711,"date":"2020-11-23T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fondazioneartecrt.it\/artista\/paul-mccarthy-3\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:08:37","slug":"paul-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"artista","link":"https:\/\/fondazioneartecrt.it\/en\/artist\/paul-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Paul McCarthy&#8217;s art is a pitiless and satirical portrait of contemporary society. Through performance, sculpture, and video the artist has created a language that, on the one hand, winks ironically at the expressive means coined by industry and by television and, on the other, demonstrates a strong affinity for crucial moments in art history.<\/div>\n<div>His videos and installations reveal the accumulation typical of consumerism stimulated by industrial production, in performances that recall the tone of television soap operas and Walt Disney&#8217;s animated cartoons. In a theatrical setting that is very close to Pop Art, McCarthy creates performances that are anything but reassuring; nightmares, perversions, and repressed violence are explicated in a theatricality that resembles Expressionist canvases and the gesturalism of body art. 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