Maccarone Gallery
630 Greenwich St
212.431.4977
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Paul McCarthy, Santa with Tree and Bell
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Nov 16, 2007 – Dec 24, 2007
Daily (noon–8pm)
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Note: The exhibition's opening reception is Thursday, November 15 (6-8pm).
LA performance artist Paul McCarthy has lathered himself with condiments, crammed his orifices full of hot dogs, and positioned inflatable, phallus-for-nose sculptures in front of major cultural institutions. Nothing is impervious to McCarthy's desecration of all that's near and dear to the repressed American psyche; and his new work at the West Village's Maccarone gallery brings that point home for the holidays. Transforming the gallery into an industrial chocolate-candy factory and retail outlet (open seven days a week through Christmas Eve), McCarthy enlists master chocolatier Peter P. Greweling to produce 1,000 ten-inch chocolate Santas each day. The jocular, bearded fellow holds a bell in one hand and a butt-plug in the other — at $100, it's a must-have stocking stuffer.
