This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement – Three Installations, Two Films, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. It was curated by Chrissie Isles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, with the assistance of Gary Carrion-Murayari, curatorial assistant.
This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most influential American artists of his generation. The show focuses on a core strand of McCarthy’s work: the use of architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space.