Provocative and playful, Maurizio Cattelan draws inspiration from the world around him and contemporary art criticism to comment on society.
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A intervenção artística "Comedian", uma banana grudada na parede com fita adesiva, do italiano Maurizio Catellan, foi vendida a um colecionador francês por US$ 120 mil. A obra estava exposta na Mostra de Arte Contemporânea, em Miami, e um visitante decidiu comê-la, neste sábado (07). A iniciativa foi de David Datuna, que nomeou seu ato de "performance artística". O fato foi noticiado em diversos veículos ao redor do mundo e a agência Buzzman aproveitou o zunzunzum para criar um anúncio de oportunidade para a rede de fast food Burger King na França. A peça mostra ao lado da fruta uma batata frita, também grudada com fita adesiva na parede. E uma discrepância nos preços de cada um dos itens.
1. Janis Joplin having an Eternal Summer in Copacabana, Brazil, 1970 Just months before her untimely death, Joplin headed to Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro to have a few moments of R&R on the beach. She wasn't nearly as well known in South America as she was in the States, and the images we
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Lebensmittel müssen nicht immer auf «Grosis Porzellangeschirr» inszeniert werden, wie der Bildband «Visual Feast» farbenfroh beweist.
la-dame-de-la-nuit: Pierpaolo Ferrara & Maurizio Cattelan
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Maurizio Catellan's L.O.V.E., a provocative sculpture in front of the Milan Stock Exchange, is more than an irreverent gesture.
In typical form, the art world’s merry prankster has spent his first year of “retirement” working, opening a gallery in Chelsea, and collaborating with creative director Dennis Freedman on a retrospective book of imagery from the first six issues of his beautiful, funny, shocking, eye-popping art magazine toilet paper.
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Toilet Paper is a “new generation” magazine that combines commercial photography, twisted narratives and surrealistic imaginary to create a series of powerful visual tableaux. Maurizio Cattelan – a strong and provocatory artist – is challenging again the limits of contemporary value system of which he is part. This time he teases the ambitious world of magazine publishers and serious art critics. He is not afraid to build a bridge between the commercial photography an art – the bridge that in Poland is considered not existing or taboo. All photographs visualize the ideas of the artist and are created in collaboration with a well-known Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. In an interview for the Italian edition of Vogue Ferrari comments on the new magazine: The magazine springs from a passion/ obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst. Click here for more info.
A revista de ilustração e cultura visual Zupi é uma publicação Brasileira de artes gráficas, criatividade e arte focada no registro de ideias e tendências.
(September 21, 1960, Padova, Italy) is an Italian artist based in New York. He did not attend art school but taught himself. He worked as a cook, gardener, nurse and mortuary attendant, before turning to making art with the hope that the art world might offer him ‘better treatment’. He began his creative adventures by making furniture for his apartment - ‘functional furniture with art meaning’. His art often combines sculpture and performance. Cattelan has a subtle sense of the paradoxes of transgression, the limits of tolerance. Since the early 1990s, his work has provoked and challenged the limits of contemporary value systems through its use of irony and humor. He teases the art world without ever falling into the naive trap of thinking he can subvert a system of which he is part. The characters and personas inhabiting maurizio cattelan’s world are ghostly appearances in a personal theatre of the absurd: policemen flipped upside down, stuffed animals hanging from the ceiling, a swami who buried himself in sand for hours at a time ... suspended between reality and fiction, Maurizio Cattelan’swork simulates and subverts the rules of culture and society in a continuous game of detournement, acts of insubordination and symbolical theft. Constantly exploring different materials, contexts and strategies, he refuses to take any moral or ideological position, concentrating instead on reproducing reality in all its complexities. while he does not offer solutions, he shows that one can survive and use the system without being consumed by it.
Lebensmittel müssen nicht immer auf «Grosis Porzellangeschirr» inszeniert werden, wie der Bildband «Visual Feast» farbenfroh beweist.
Designboom Image Alessandro Ghirelli Ready for a crazy installation? Artist Maurizio Cattelan pulls inspiration from nearly everything around him in both
“What I’m interested in are images. I’m sure you can tell. Who in his right mind would deliberately represent the pope struck by a meteorite in order to deliver a political message about the church? Or a hooded kid nailed to a school desk? It takes a very deviated and imaginative mind - say Roger Waters in his The Wall period - to conceive something like that as a critique of the educational system”.
Comme beaucoup d'artistes contemporains, c'est l'attitude de Cattelan qui décrit le mieux son œuvre, plutôt que le type de médium qu'il utilise. D'un esprit frondeur, il pratique le paradoxe, la provocation, l'humour et l'ironie féroce — son esprit frondeur...
A grande richiesta, abbiamo deciso di pubblicare sul sito le lunghe e straordinarie interviste apparse sul magazine cartaceo dal 2009 al 2011. Quaranta trascinanti conversazioni con i protagonisti dell’arte contemporanea, del design e dell’architettura. Una
Italy is back in the game. Otto anni dopo la retrospettiva dedicata a Federico Fellini, un italiano torna al Guggenheim. Il Maurizio nazionale al “centro” della spirale dell’edificio di New York. Fino al 22 gennaio.
