Winshluss Turns Musée des Arts Décoratifs Toy Gallery into Grotesque Freak Show

From April 17 to November 10, 2013, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris hosted an exhibition by Winshluss (Vincent Paronnaud), who was invited to rearrange the museum's toy gallery. The show featured absurd objects like Beatles wigs, a miniature model of Johnny Hallyday, a smoking bear, and a dog in a grotesque pose. Winshluss, known for fanzines and independent cartoons, co-directed Persepolis with Marjane Satrapi. His gallerists Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois compare him to Paul McCarthy for his outrageous travestying of childhood heroes. A window diorama depicted Barbapapa with the Chapman Bros, and in Barbapatomic, soldiers and tanks attack a fluorescent pink monster. The exhibition turned the promised 'wonderful world' into a burlesque freak show of atrocities.