Paul McCarthy’s Art Is Complex Shit On The Runs
ANORAK’S Vomit In Sock is an early contender for the Turner Prize. But there is competition:
20 hectares of playground for the garden show: the farmland to the rear of the three steel hills and the entire tract of greenery from the Wyssloch Valley down to Lake Egelsee will be sprouting weird and wonderful objects to form an animated kind of front garden.
Paul McCarthy will be subverting the otherwise harmonious landscape sculpture of the Zentrum Paul Klee with his installation Complex Shit – a giant pile of dog faeces.
Oh, complex shit. Not complete shit. Silly us.
“Complex Shit”, a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy, cast loose its moorings and was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from the Paul Klee centre in Berne and carried 200 yards to eventually make landfall in the grounds of a children’s home.
Museum authorities said the work had an automatic safety device that was supposed to make it deflate in the event of a storm - but it failed to operate.
The Runs…
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August 13th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I am not suprised that an artist has done this work…I AM surprised that someone BOUGHT the work….what next?
August 13th, 2008 at 7:06 am
There’s nothing complex about sh*t!
I fucking hate that word!
Sh*t is waste and surplus to requirements - It doesn’t need some waster doing a piece of work on it,.
Was this a commissioned piece - or did he come up with the idea on his own?
August 13th, 2008 at 1:45 am
A giant inflatable dog turd? Cheap, uninspired, and repulsive. A giant flying dog turd bringing down power lines and attacking orphanages? Bloody genius.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:16 am
The council put some modern art under the local viaduct. It was meant to be a sort of abstract flower but it looks like a nob and all the boys write their names on it.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
This is undoubtedly his best work. McCarthy’s dogshit busting some windows at a children’s home? I’d pay for that. His Whitney exhibit. Fucking garbage!!
August 12th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Done that already…. in the southwest corner of our back garden.
Our dogs use it as a giant litter tray.
(pooo….!)
August 12th, 2008 at 11:38 am
that’s already been done in the Russian parliament, if I remember rightly…?
August 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
A flying penis?
August 12th, 2008 at 11:34 am
somebody please define “complex” in reference to shit….??
…and inflatable flying shit at that…. what next?