Rodney Graham
Jeff Wall
Mark Lombardi
At an early stage in his career, McCarthy zoomed in on destructive art, where creating and destroying coincide. Saw/Hammer (1967) is one of his first performance works. On stage he and a friend smash up furniture to the accompaniment of “noise” music by a local rock group. They run amok with a hammer, a saw and a chainsaw and finally McCarthy falls off the stage. This performance generated one of the first surviving sculptures, Mannequin Head and Squirrel. This was the year after Gustav Metzger’s famous seminar Destruction in Arts Symposium in London,
Sean Landers
Yinka Shonibare
Tracey Emin
Gillian Wearing
Jenny Holtzer
Yinka Shonibare
Tracey Emin
Gillian Wearing
Jenny Holtzer