Paul Lee - Contemporary Artists

Untitled (Can Sculpture) x3 views

Untitled (Can Sculpture) x3 views The Saatchi Gallery
 

Paul Lee

Untitled (Can Sculpture) x3 views

2007
Soda cans, magnifying glass, string, paint, xerox, socks, coal, light bulb

32 x 12 x 19 cm

Each of the pieces in Untitled (Can Sculpture) begins with a soda can with a photocopy of a young man’s face pasted over the label. The image is taken from a 70s naturist magazine and was chosen because the boy’s strong classical features exemplify archetypical ideals of beauty and youth. In this work, a red light bulb is embedded inside a torn can to denote sexual attraction, its seedy glow visible through the peep hole opening of another. Desire and fixation are amplified through a small magnifying lens which focuses on the bulb’s phallic screw-grooved base.
 
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