A former student of Richard Jackson and Paul McCarthy in Los Angeles, Jason Rhoades has developed a “low tech” aesthetic that uses saturation and collage processes. Rhoades asserts an often ironic position in which he questions issues as different as money, sexuality or car races in a falsely naive way. La Chatte de Beaubourg comprises a chandelier to which four cartwheels are attached. The work is criss-crossed with electric wires from which seventeen neon inscriptions hang, suggesting a woman’s sexual organ expressed with the words in French slang: l’abricot, la cité d’amour, la moule. In...

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A former student of Richard Jackson and Paul McCarthy in Los Angeles, Jason Rhoades has developed a “low tech” aesthetic that uses saturation and collage processes. Rhoades asserts an often ironic position in which he questions issues as different as money, sexuality or car races in a falsely naive way. La Chatte de Beaubourg comprises a chandelier to which four cartwheels are attached. The work is criss-crossed with electric wires from which seventeen neon inscriptions hang, suggesting a woman’s sexual organ expressed with the words in French slang: l’abricot, la cité d’amour, la moule. In keeping with the themes of Courbet’s L’Origine du monde and Marcel Duchamp’s L’Objet-Dard, this work is a kind of reference to French erotic tradition.

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