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I caught Paul Mccarthy And Richard Prince works at PKM Gallery in Seoul.
Great Gallery, great people. Props to PKM for showing Paul Mccarthy! Wow you guys surprised me! And Props to Sophie for showing me around.
The Richard Prince Painting was from the Nurse series. It was funny to see it in person because I've see these paintings in magazines a lot and on the cover of Sonic Youth's record Sonic Nurse (Sonic Youth lives close to Richard Prince or used to). I'm still wondering how much material was lifted from other sources for these paintings and where from? Prince got famous for his re-photography. Specifically for Spiritual America photos. I really enjoy his re-photography stuff. Especially the Cowboy photos and girlfriend photos. If you look at R. Prince's work it's all over the place, paintings of Nurses, re-photography, hoods from cars, the list goes on. However maybe it all comes down to media? Maria Morris Hamburg, the curator of photography at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art had this to say about the artist:
"He is absolutely essential to what's going on today, he figured out before anyone else—and in a very precocious manner—how thoroughly pervasive the media is. It's not just an aspect of our lives, but the dominant aspect of our lives."
The re-photography stuff could just be a trick to make us think about the media and how often images enter our lives without us thinking about them. The images of cowboys from old cigarette ads are somehow appealing to me (these were pre-Photo shop days of the 1980s). When I look at them I usually think about the original source material and what that could have been. Or I think about the year it was created.
Paul Mccarthy
The Paul Mccarthy photos were from the early 1980s. They documented a performance in which he is wearing a mask that looks something like a cartoon character. There where only three in the series that PKM Gallery had. Really I was hoping for some of his new sculpture featuring ex-president G.W. Bush. Oh well maybe next time. But they did have a huge screen playing an old Mccarthy performance. One which I wasn't familiar with. Seoul has massive potential as an art city and PKM could easy be a main player and facilitator. I'm looking forward to seeing more from them.
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