On the one hand Peter and Paul by Paul McCarthy is an ironical self-portrait of the artist, on the other hand it shows the naked body as a projection surface. Simultaneously, by the combination of the body and its mould, inside and outside are brought together. Body and object, alive and dead matter are melt together. The body or the plastic figure serves the Californian artist as a metaphor for social structures; with the aid of questioning the validity of rules of the society and social conventions. The destruction of these conventions and the disbanding of rigid terms of sexuality are in the centre of his work, for which he uses a multitude of forms of expression. ___
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