‘Paul McCarthy’

BOZAR is paying tribute to Paul McCarthy, the famous American visual artist who never fails to create a stir. His work, deliberately provocative, blithely switches between abstract expressionism and scatological pornography. Because it seeks to reflect the contradictory images of our times, in which the sublime often sits alongside the vulgar, and beauty frequently flirts with squalor. A comparison that is sometimes reminiscent of Baudelaire, but in a more raw form, by which reality is debased through the debasement of art. His prolific oeuvre covers many disciplines (video, sculpture, performance, installation, etc.), but it is his two-dimensional work that BOZAR will be putting in the spotlight. White Snow Mammoth, which will be screened during the evening, will be no exception to the artist's aesthetic line: his twist on Snow White results in a work that is at once zany and transgressive, in which sex, violence and humour are used in a way that is ultimately the hallmark of McCarthy's production: the art of excess. A demonstration will be given on the night. In images.