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Paul McCarthy Takes Over Both Hauser & Wirth London Galleries

artwork: Paul McCarthy - "Pig Island", 2003 – 2010 - Mixed materials - 1067.5 x 915 x 518.5 cm. - Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth (Installation view, ‘Pig Island’), Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy, 2010). - © Paul McCarthy. - On view at Hauser & Wirth, until January 14th 2012.


London. Hauser & Wirth are proud to present “Paul McCarthy The King, The Island, The Dwarves, The Train…” on view at botht eh companiy’s London galleries (Savile Row and Piccadilly) through January 14th 2012. This exhibition features major new works and some of the most significant sculptures and installations by Los Angeles based artist Paul McCarthy, including the ambitious ‘Pig Island’. Spanning both the Savile Row and Piccadilly galleries, this exhibition showcases the highly developed themes and interrelationships coursing through McCarthy’s complex practice. Combining political figures and pop culture, ‘Pig Island’, on view at Savile Row, is a morally deviant world populated by pirates, cowboys, the likenesses of George W. Bush and Angelina Jolie, an assortment of Disney characters and the artist himself, all carousing in a state of wild and reckless abandon.