PRESS RELEASE
MC DONALDS GOES CRAZY!
@HOXTON 253 PROJECT SPACE, HOXTON STREET, LONDON SUNDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2019
12 -6PM
FOR PRESS INQUIRES: mrpauldavidchisholm@gmail.com OR info@hoxton253.com
For pre event video Links Please see: http://www.mrpauldavidchisholm.com/#/mc-whimsical/
“MC WHIMISICAL”
101 Automated machines, McDonalds burger bags, batteries, staples, 2011-present Contemporary British Artist Paul Chisholm hosts a one-day performance of “Mc Whimsical”
Comprising of 101 automated Mc Donalds Burger bags. The gallery becomes a circus for new ideas about how, what, when and where we consume. Mc Donalds is not singled out here however the company stands in place for the ohhh-most recognisable tour de force in global capitalisation in fact there is a term for this the Mc Economy coined by the economist magazine. The cost of a Big Mac showing each country's economic and consumerist power by the cost of a Big Mac!
The work goes deeper and asks us to question our relationship with food, agriculture, the environment, meat eating and the homogenisation of consumption and capitalist ideals.
Fast food, fast lives, fast living and the hunger of the World’s most poor people it’s only 99p that’sequivalent to the daily working wage of over 30% of the worlds working poor.
This isn’t just another piece of performance of Art but a spectacle of a 21st century Post- apocalyptic Landscape Painting.
The performance will be held from 12 am to 6pm on Sunday 24th November 2019 at Hoxton253 Gallery. Hoxton Street, Hackney, London, N1
FREE HAMBURGERS & ALL-DAY FIZZ INCLUDED!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Paul Chisholm (1983) born in Canterbury, England and brought up in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He studied at Nottingham Trent University (2004) before doing his MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in London (2018/2019). Chisholm’spractice has been featured on The BBC, The Daily Star, Metro Newspaper, Attitude magazine and more. He came to notoriety in2017 when he sold “The Worlds most painful dildo” as dubbed by the press at Christies, London in Aid of the Terrence HigginsTrust. Recent exhibitions include Too much World at the Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea London curated by Anni Lii from theSotheby’s
Institute , Cookies & Coke at The Old Biscuit factory, Bermondsey London ( Batch Artists) , Paint, White Conduit Projects, London & The Everyday exhibition, Curated by Visual Aids, La mama Galleria, New York. He lives between Bletchingley in Surrey & Amsterdam, Holland.
ABOUT HOXTON 253 PROJECT SPACE
is an artist-run gallery and project space, providing an experimental platform to emerging and mid-career artists.
We proudly run an artists for artists project space, where our aim is to nurture creative talents, provide accessible exhibition space to students, and build a community of artists with the objective to provoke critical dialogue within contemporary culture and society. Our diverse ongoing program of exhibitions, experimental projects, workshops, events and screenings are open to all art lovers, the local community, as well as patrons and collectors.
For info and more details about the gallery, please contact info@hoxton253.com