Paul McCarthy - TRANS Gum (Cover for TRANS>8 magazine)

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Paul McCarthy: TRANS Gum is the special artist cover multiple created for TRANS>8 magazine in 2000. The work features McCarthy’s distorted Santa Claus drawing silk-screened onto a sheet of pink chewing gum, originally issued shrink-wrapped to the cover of the magazine. Fragile, unusual, and highly collectible, it turns the magazine cover into an edible art object connected to McCarthy’s provocative and absurd visual world.

 

Paul McCarthy: TRANS Gum was created as the cover artist multiple for TRANS>8: Arts.Cultures.Media, published in 2000. The piece consists of a reproduced Paul McCarthy drawing, often described as an “evil Santa,” silk-screened onto a single sheet of pink chewing gum and attached to the magazine cover. The magazine was originally issued shrink-wrapped, with the gum multiple presented directly on the front.

Inside, TRANS>8 brings together contemporary art, culture, and media, with contributions connected to artists including Paul McCarthy and Olafur Eliasson. McCarthy’s gum cover transforms a familiar holiday figure into a strange, unsettling image, matching his wider interest in consumer culture, childhood icons, bodily humor, and psychological discomfort. Because the chewing gum cover is extremely fragile and many examples cracked or broke over time, complete examples are especially collectible for fans of Paul McCarthy, artist multiples, experimental magazines, and early-2000s contemporary art publications.

Author: Paul McCarthy, Olafur Eliasson, Adriano Pedrosa, Sandra Antelo-Suarez

Format: Softcover Magazine

Language: English

Pages: 160 pages

Size: 20.5 × 25 cm / 8 × 10 in

Published: 2000

ISBN: 9781888209099

Publisher: TRANS> Arts.Cultures.Media

Features the specialTRANS Gumchewing gum silkscreen cover by Paul McCarthy and scented scratch-and-sniff pages by Olafur Eliasson.

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