Celebrate Xmas in Paris..... with a huge green butt plug!

Giant inflatable 'sex toy' sculpture in Paris is meant to be a Christmas tree

Paul McCarthy's artwork has made some passers-by uncomfortable
LIZZIE DEARDEN
Independent.co.uk
Thursday 16 October 2014


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This inflatable “Christmas tree” erected in Paris is making passers-by feel a little uncomfortable.

The 80ft-high object is raising eyebrows because of its uncanny resemblance to a sex toy, but is actually an installation by American artist Paul McCarthy.

Simply called “Tree”, it is towering over the Place Vendome as part of a contemporary art fair.

McCarthy, who is no stranger to controversy, designed the piece specifically for the “Fiac” festival but it has not been taken well by some critics.

Printemps Francais, a far-right group that opposes gay marriage, has been complaining on Twitter.

Paul McCarthy's sculpture is for the FIAC Art Fair Paul McCarthy's sculpture is for the FIAC Art Fair “Taxpayers – this is where your money goes!” said one post, while another claimed the Place Vendome had been “disfigured” and Paris “humiliated”.

It is one of McCarthy’s many Christmas-themed works, including a controversial “Santa Claus” intended for Rotterdam in 2001.

It was never placed next to a concert hall as planned because of arguments about another suggestive Christmas tree that earned the statue the nickname “butt plug gnome”.

An inflatable sculpture called 'Complex Pile' by American contemporary artist Paul Mccarthy on display at the 'Inflation!' exhibition An inflatable sculpture called 'Complex Pile' by American contemporary artist Paul Mccarth on display at the 'Inflation!' exhibition He also created a giant inflatable installation depicting excrement in Hong Kong last year and in 2011, an exhibition of his work in London included a pair of animatronic George W Bush sculptures having sex with pigs.

As the late Bob Ross used to say,"It can be whatever you want it to be because it's your world". Maybe the people who see it as a butt plug are just perverts. To the innocent and unsoiled it's a tree.

Some mass protest group is probably go steal it and attempt to shove it up the entrance gate of the Élysée Palace.

It would be a hoot to see the Stay Puff Marshmallow man show up. Sit on it and start whacking off and spray Paris with a marshmallow milkshake. It would be art and cuisine at the same time. Next will be giant Ben Wa balls called Easter eggs.

This is too fucking funny. Years ago in Buffalo, we had a BIG opening for an outdoor neon display in the theatre district called "Green Lightening" which was met with dead silence. The piece was immediately dubbed "Dancing Dicks." There were four silhouettes of cock and balls with little dancing legs and top hats. The fourth one was animated and fave the effect of going hard an soft. Supposedly taking a bow.

Green Lightning is a sculpture created by artist Billie Lawless. An original maquette was created for ArtPark in the fall of 1983. The work featured thirteen lightning bolts ranging in height from 13 to 30 feet shooting into the ground on a site 180×160 feet. On a main sign like structure were four boxes 8×10×2 feet with images silk screened on the back dealing with social issues contemporary in nature. In front of these images and protected by clear LEXAN panels were neon tubes of a graffiti image that Lawless found on the side of a condemned building. These figures were a pun on the Planters Peanut character dressed up with a top hat and cane that could be interpreted as dancing penises. In the fourth box which was part of a sixty-second sequence the character removes his top hat and takes a bow to the crowd. Behind and above the main steel structure that held these boxes were four rows of brightly painted tin stars that spun in the wind, an obvious metaphor for the cosmos.
Green Lightning, 1984. Steel, LEXAN, tin, transformers, neon, electricity, wire, animators and concrete.

The sculpture was built in Buffalo, New York, over a period of two years and dedicated in November 1984. Construction of the work on its site started on October 6, and it was completed and lit on November 15. Some city officials found the work to be offensive, and Mayor Jimmy Griffin (politician) ordered it removed on November 20, 5 days later. Initial attempts at removing the sculpture began under the cover of night by a sign company with no knowledge of handling sculpture and resulted in significant damage to the work. Its total destruction was prevented when Lawless drove down to where the sculpture had been unveiled and climbed atop the 30-foot structure in an attempt to prevent workers from cutting it down.[1] He later obtained a court order by New York State Supreme Court Justice, Vincent Doyle, who issued an injunction and publicly denounced the actions of the Mayor in a hearing the following day. Lawless sued, claiming that his rights were being infringed; the city contended that the sculpture, as erected, was not representative of the model they had been presented with. Billie Lawless won the lawsuit but was awarded no damages.
Green Lightning, Buffalo, New York, November 1984.

The sculpture was eventually removed from Buffalo and relocated to Chicago at Sculpture Chicago 1985, where it stood unmolested for ten years.

It is currently in storage in Cleveland, Ohio[2]

Years later in a 2014 interview, when Lawless was asked if he would bring the Green Lightning sculpture back to Buffalo, he replied "Any time".[1]

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Originally Posted by FORD

Giant inflatable 'sex toy' sculpture in Paris is meant to be a Christmas tree

Paul McCarthy's artwork has made some passers-by uncomfortable
LIZZIE DEARDEN
Independent.co.uk
Thursday 16 October 2014


http://www.independent.co.uk/incomin...culpture-2.jpg



This inflatable “Christmas tree” erected in Paris is making passers-by feel a little uncomfortable.

The 80ft-high object is raising eyebrows because of its uncanny resemblance to a sex toy, but is actually an installation by American artist Paul McCarthy.

Simply called “Tree”, it is towering over the Place Vendome as part of a contemporary art fair.

McCarthy, who is no stranger to controversy, designed the piece specifically for the “Fiac” festival but it has not been taken well by some critics.

Printemps Francais, a far-right group that opposes gay marriage, has been complaining on Twitter.

Paul McCarthy's sculpture is for the FIAC Art Fair Paul McCarthy's sculpture is for the FIAC Art Fair “Taxpayers – this is where your money goes!” said one post, while another claimed the Place Vendome had been “disfigured” and Paris “humiliated”.

It is one of McCarthy’s many Christmas-themed works, including a controversial “Santa Claus” intended for Rotterdam in 2001.

It was never placed next to a concert hall as planned because of arguments about another suggestive Christmas tree that earned the statue the nickname “butt plug gnome”.

An inflatable sculpture called 'Complex Pile' by American contemporary artist Paul Mccarthy on display at the 'Inflation!' exhibition An inflatable sculpture called 'Complex Pile' by American contemporary artist Paul Mccarth on display at the 'Inflation!' exhibition He also created a giant inflatable installation depicting excrement in Hong Kong last year and in 2011, an exhibition of his work in London included a pair of animatronic George W Bush sculptures having sex with pigs.

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The "giant sex toy" (recognized as looking like so by the author himself) was deflated yesterday. :(

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Originally Posted by Jérôme Frenchise

The "giant sex toy" (recognized as looking like so by the author himself) was deflated yesterday. :(

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Fuck! Well that ruins my dream of seeing a large protest group doing something extremely silly with the giant butt plug.