Article: Claus Carstensen. (Gimpel Fils Ltd, London, United Kingdom)

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Our century of art reveals a rich and populous subcultural world of work of--or on--excrement, excretions, and fluids. To name a few: the prissy urinal of Marcel Duchamp, as well as his later semen painting; Piero Manzoni's canned shit; Andy Warhol's oxidation paintings; Andre Serrano's Piss Christ, 1987; the brown stuff of John Miller's and Mike Kelley's art; Carolee Schneemann's menstrual blood; and Helen Chadwick's Piss-flowers. Do we really need to add to this scatological sweepstakes? Claus Carstensen seems to think we do that three is a good deal left to be said about art and the future through piss-and-paint. In this exhibition, Carstensen's ...

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