Life’s an ocean with too much commotion

Yesterday we went to an exhibition of Paul McCarthy in the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent.We weren’t aware of the things we were about to see and after the visit we were shocked by what we’ve seen.

In the ‘Head Shop/Shop Head’ exhibition he tries to express an unambiguous image of the ‘Western way of life’. This is brought by sexual, dirty, ketchup-decorated short-films and dolls. This exhibition shows several short-movies on the walls and settings where these films were recorded in the halls of the museum. On the first floor you will see some additional constructions of murder scenes, abstract tokens, drawings and dolls.

In my humble opinion it’s sometimes hard to discover the actual meaning of these abstract creatures and films.
For instance, on the first floor you will see his famous ‘Dead H’, a sculpture made of galvanized steel in the shape of the letter “H”(uman). This represents a man with his two arms and two legs. You can’t see the part that joins the two stems (what should be the stomach of the human being). It represents the inner of people which can’t be seen from outside

You don’t have to be modern art lover to get overwhelmed by this. Therefore I would advise all people to visit the Paul McCarthy’s exhibition in the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent.