Inevitably, all participants walk away sticky, licking their hands and arms as they return to moving among the art — precious works made of imitation gold leaf, giant spray - paint color fields, sloppy neon,
messy paint spills, and chrome.
Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on
paintings, old beds, couches
spilling over with posters, and other
messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.