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"McCarthy’s dwarfs have no Snow White…they are the wreckage, the remains of inspiration metamorphosed into damaged artifacts—a glimpse into the artist’s mind. Paul McCarthy has never been better."
—Alfred Mac AdamExecuted in 2010, Paul McCarthy’s White Snow Dwarf (Doc) is an example from the artist’s celebrated series of works which re-interpret fairy tales, revealing their more macabre antecedents. Renowned for his appropriation and subversion of childhood nostalgia, the present work belongs to the artist’s exploration of the 19th century German folk tale Schneewittchen (Snow White) and its modern interpretation with Disney’s 1937 animated classic film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Begun in 2009, McCarthy’s reinterpretations, place us at a distance from the saccharinity of Disney’s rendition as the more sinister elements of the original fairy tale come to the fore. Typical of an artist whose career has transcended the boundaries of any single medium, McCarthy’s exploration of the Seven Dwarves first manifested in a series of drawings, then through sculptural interrogations, and finally culminated in an epic installation in 2013.
Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 The present work in silicone is based on the artist’s initial clay model which were inspired by the small figurines from the Disney film. The clay versions then underwent various degrees of destruction in the process of creating the fiberglass mold for the silicone iterations. Transformed and destructed, these clay models subsequently became the basis for his ultimate iterations in cast bronze. The decay and degradation of his large-scale mediations on the characters acts as a physical manifestation of the dissolution of the purported purity and integrity of his source. McCarthy has noted, “casting… liberates the literal through a kind of unifying monotone, a different representation of the original thing that lets me explore where reality and abstraction intersect.”1
1 Paul McCarthy, quoted in The Dwarves, The Forest, press release, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 2011.
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現藏者購自上述來源過往展覽
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Paul McCarthy. Nine Dwarves, April 5 - May 12, 2012, pp. 72, 148 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 73-79)
Lokremise St. Gallen, Paul McCarthy, September 3 - November 13, 2016 (another example exhibited)
New York, Hauser & Wirth, To Form a More Perfect Union, November 12 - December 31, 2020
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《白雪矮人（Doc）》
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66 x 50 x 49 1/2 英吋 (167.6 x 127 x 125.7 公分)
2010年作，共有3版及2版藝術家試作版， 此為第3版，並附藝術家所發之保證書。
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$400,000 - 600,000
成交價$403,200
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