Maurizio Cattelan
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Maurizio Cattelan (b.1960) is today's best-known Italian artist. In some ways an heir to the legendary Italian 'anti-artist' Piero Manzoni, Cattelan produces witty, unorthodox performances, sculptures and photoworks that are as varied as they are...
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Maurizio Cattelan (b.1960) is today's best-known Italian artist. In some ways an heir to the legendary Italian 'anti-artist' Piero Manzoni, Cattelan produces witty, unorthodox performances, sculptures and photoworks that are as varied as they are unsettling. This humorous, untraditional art often takes an off-centre standpoint at the margins of mainstream society to poke fun at art history, monumentality and nationalism.
Cattelan was once a furniture designer, which infuses all his unconventional work with a surprising elegance that is especially striking. He works in a great variety of media. Examples include a real stuffed horse hung from the magnificent ceiling of a great Italian Palazzo (Novecento, 1997) in reference to Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis' exhibition of 12 real horses in Rome some thirty years before; and a 'homeless person' mannequin, realistically slumped on a city sidewalk, the lifeless reminder of the wasted human lives we witness daily in city streets.
References to Arte Povera, classic Italian figurative sculpture and much post-war art and culture are blended in Cattelan's work with the artist's own idiosyncracies. Over the years, Cattelan - working with themes that vary from thievery to escapism to childhood - has consistently produced significant artworks that have captured the attention of the international art world and established him as one of the most exciting artists working today.
Italian curator and critic Francesco Bonami describes in his Survey the artist's development in his local political and socio-historical context. In the Interview, critic and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum curator Nancy Spector draws out the aritist's 'slippery' personality while offering solid interpretations of the work. Belgium-based curator and writer Barbara Vanderlinden offers a firsthand response in the Focus to Cattelan's monumental project first shown atManifesta 2 (1998), an untitled work consisting of a
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living tree growing from an exposed block of soil within the exhibition space itself. Cattelan has chosen an extract from Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth and extracts from ...Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes (ed. Marc Etkind, 1997), both echoing the artist's often tragi-comical evocations of desperation and escapism. Maurizio Cattelan's statements and previous interviews, collected here, include his occasional appropriation of the words and even identities of others. In the Update section, critic and curator Massimiliano Gioni surveys Cattelan's work from 2000 to the present.
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Interview - Cattelan's 'slippery' personality shines through while critic and Guggenheim Museum curator Nancy Spector offers solid interpretative responses to the subversive strategies behind Cattelan's work. Survey - International curator Francesco Bonami sets the work in the context of recent Italian political and social history. His work-by-work analysis is divided into the main themes in Cattelan's work (autobiography, the allegorical use of animals, politics, and so forth) to draw together coherently Cattelan's varied body of work. Focus - Curator Barbara Vanderlindern offers a first hand response to the work Cattelan made for Manifesta 2, 1998, co-curated by Vanderlinden): an untitled work consisting of a living uprooted tree, growing in a block of dirt inside the exhibition space itself. Artist's Choice - The two selections combine issues dear to the artist's heart: adolescence, sex and death. In Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, the teenage Alexander Portnoy describes his new-found obsession with masturbation; and suicide letters are chosen from... Or Not To Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes (ed. Marc Etkind, 1997). (True to the artist's characteristic avoidance of responsibility, Cattelan has asked an anonymous editorial assistant to select one of his Artist's Choices on his behalf.) Artist's Writings - Previous interviews are included from the artist's early years - including an interview notoriously 'stolen' from another artist - and a recent discussion with the curator of his 2003 'retrispective' at Los Angeles MoCA, Massimilano Gioni Update - Maurizio Ccatelan's closest collaborator and spokesperson, Massimiliano Gioni, offers an especially insightful look at this enigmatic, uncompromising artist, examining the artist's uncanny, often dangerous will to provoke his audience. Recent examples include The Elerventh Hour, a realistic sculpture of the Pop being hit by a meteorite, or a wax scultpure of miniaturized Adolf Hitler. Chronology and Bibliography
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- Autoren: Philip Roth , Maurizio Cattelan , Marc Etkind
- 2003, Revised and expanded edition., 212 Seiten, 200 farbige Abbildungen, 40 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 13,9 x 15,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Phaidon
- ISBN-10: 0714843067
- ISBN-13: 9780714843063
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.04.2003
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Englisch
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