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thematic album:

Stefano Mirti’s

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He who fights with monsters might take care lesthe thereby become a monster. Is not life a

hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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XVIth Century

Bomarzo, Parco dei Mostri

(Monster's Park)

"Voi che pel mondo gite errando vaghi di veder

meraviglie alte et stupende venite qua, dove son

facce horrende, elefanti, leoni, orchi et draghi"




XVIth Century

Bomarzo, Parco dei Mostri

(Monster's Park)

"Tu ch'entri qua con mente parte a parte et dimmi

poi se tante meraviglie sien fatte per inganno o

pur per arte"




Garavicchio, 1979/1996

Niki de Saint Phalle (and Others),

Giardino dei Tarocchi













Milan, 2010

Paul McCarthy, PIg Island

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“I am interested in horror movies and B-movies as




a genre.

they are alternative to the Hollywood blockbuster.

they’re inconsistent.

the illusions are flawed. I am interested in the

fake arm and head being cut off, fake blood, fake

sex.

they reveal themselves as film, as fake, but yet

consider them effective.

I am not satirising horror films.

I want to make something that alludes to horrer

and use it to make something else,

something that has no clear explanation.”

(Paul McCarthy)

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for the exhibition with fondazione nicola trussardi,

paul mc carthy presents one of his most complex

and ambitious works, 'pig island', a giant sculpture

that grew in the artist’s studio to fill over 100

square meters with a surreal anthology of the

themes that have cropped up throughout his

career.




Milan, 2010


the installation is a carnivalesque amusement park

in which human beings behave like pigs.

a treasure island in reverse, a sculptural shipwreck

in which pirates and their heroines throw

themselves with abandon into wild revels.

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its characters can finally cast off their inhibitions

and reveal their all-too-human nature.




this is a work-in-progress that mc carthy has been

developing for over seven years, and which made

its world debut now in milan.

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"in pig island some figures are realistic and others

are abstract and deformed, turned into mush.

a human becomes a pig and a pig becomes ahuman becomes mud form, pig island is a

platform;

we are on a platform. I always deconstruct and

alter the object, mold and re-mold in rubber or

chocolate.make the hands twice the normal size or refine the

boots, cut off the boot and set it on the floor.

it is constantly in this flux. appearing to be

finished, but never finished, always implying a

direction and than changing the direction. leadingeverybody on to believe that is finished, or that

we are closed to finish, and than completely

abandoning that and than starting again. and in

that process, the piece keeps going, it keeps

building up"(Paul McCarthy)





Milan, 2010


Most of the images and the texts are taken from:

www.designboom.com

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