Art Pick: Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth online and in Gstaad
Installation View, Paul McCarthy: Alpine Stories and Other Dystopias at Tarmak22, Gstaad

Art Pick: Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth online and in Gstaad

The gallery's current online exhibition A&E Drawing Session, Santa Anita presents a new series of large scale drawings from McCarthy along with salient video content. This is on the occasion of the more sweeping survey exhibition Alpine Stories and other Dystopias now installed at Gstaad's Tarmak 22 ? comprising drawings, photographs, sculptures, and video work from the series Heidi, White Snow, Caribbean Pirates, and PROPO in a lively examination of McCarthy's decades-long obsessions with both Disney magic? and the mythology of the Swiss Alps. As it turns out, themes of purity and delusion, fantasies of whiteness and commerce, are rich in these overlapping spheres of imagery and iconography. hauserwirth.com.
width=540 Paul McCarthy, HEIDI FILE, Interlaken, Grindelwald, Eiger, Jungfrau, 2000 (Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth)
width=524 Paul McCarthy, Red Deer, cibachrome on aluminum, 48 x 72 inches, 1991-2003. (Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth)
width=540 Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Heidi, 1992 (video still). Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth

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