
Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement at the Whitney
by ArtJetSet
In Paul McCarthy’s Central Symmetrical Rotation on realized as an installation at the Whitney, uses architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space. In Bang Bang Room (1992), the space almost seems to come alive as the walls of a free-standing domestic room move slowly in and out, the doors in each wall wildly slamming open and shut. The violent thundering echo of the slamming doors harmonized by the disjunction of […]
Categories: New York • Tags: Bang Bang Room, Paul McCarthy, Spinning Room, Whitney