Sunday, December 24, 2017

Santa Chocolate Shop

Paul McCarthy 
Los Angeles CA 1997














First presented as a room size video installation at the Whitney Biennial of 1997, McCarthy’s anti consumerist Xmas classic bears reviewing now especially in this time of shameless Trump triumphant.  Two anal aggressive female elves engage in some serious chocolate smearing alongside two filthy Santas and a red nosed Reindeer who makes good (albeit flaccid) use of a glory hole, all very much in the long tradition of Saturnalian excess.

 

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