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paul mccarthy: ship of fools, ship adrift 2
'ship of fools, ship adrift 2', 2010
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american artist paul mccarthy has spent much of his career critiquing and exploring
western society's obsessions - its mass media, popular culture and icons of its consumer,
entertainment and art industries. in reaction to the excesses of consumer capitalism,
'disneyfied' banality and misplaced feelings of entitlement, mccarthy has developed
a subversive vocabulary that twists, perverts and exaggerates the world around him
to a heightened and crazed state.
for the occasion of the 17th biennale of sydney, he has produced a new sculpture,
which premiered at pier 2 / 3, walsh bay. entitled 'ship of fools, ship adrift 2', 2010,
the sculpture is a contemporary rephrasing of the medieval allegory, depicting a world
of power without principle as the ship and its denizens hurtle obviously towards their
own destruction. constructed from foam, the child like faces of the caricatured inhabitants
float dumbly above the ship that sports an implausible gun barrel mounted on its prow.
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view of the inplausible gun barrel mounted on the prow of the ship
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detail of structural components
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front view of the ship
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containers of foam
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side view
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up close of caricatured faces
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foam child-like faces hang above
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up close of the side of the ship
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the sculpture is set atop a carpeted platform
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one of the child-like faces of the caricatured inhabitants
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