Maurizio Cattelan

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Maurizio Cattelan in front of his sculpture LOVE , 2010

Maurizio Cattelan (born September 21, 1960 in Padua ) is an Italian artist who lives in New York .

Works of art

Cattelan creates lifelike characters and stages bizarre, comical and provocative situations. His sensational installations include works such as La Nona Ora - The Ninth Hour (1999), a figure of Pope John Paul II who is hit by a meteorite . In 2001 he designed Him (Praying Hitler), a childlike, small and innocent-looking and piously kneeling figure of Adolf Hitler . This was auctioned in 2016 for the record price of 17.2 million dollars. Together with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick , he curated the fourth berlin biennial for contemporary art in 2006, entitled Von Mäusen und Menschen . The sculpture LOVE (“libertà, odio, vendetta, eternità”, i.e. “freedom, hate, vengeance, eternity”) made of Carrara marble , which was erected in front of the stock exchange in Milan in 2010 and whose hand stretched out in Roman salute , also caused a stir Fingers apart from the spread out middle finger were severed in order to caricature fascism . His installation America , a fully functional washdown toilet bowl made of 18-carat gold, which the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum had built into an existing toilet room in 2016 and which was stolen from Blenheim Palace at an exhibition in 2019 , also made headlines . Its estimated value is 5.4 million euros. Cattelan caused a stir with a banana attached to the wall at the Art Basel art fair in Miami, which was eaten by the action artist David Datuna. That only supports his artistic narrative style, said Cattelan.

Toiletpaper photo magazine

Cattelan publishes the photo magazine Toiletpaper together with the Greek-Cypriot art foundation DESTE .

Awards

Exhibitions

Public collections

literature

Web links

Commons : Maurizio Cattelan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurizio Cattelan ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museomadre.it
  2. ↑ Cattelan's Hitler sculpture "Him" achieves record price. In: www.artinfo24.com. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , p. 38–39 (with ill.) .
  4. ↑ Castle in England: Golden Toilet Stolen faz.net, September 15, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019. - Video (0:41)
  5. ↑ FOCUS Online: Rome: Maurizio Cattelan: Eat banana I don't care. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  6. ^ Churches in Pulheim
  7. ↑ St. Martinus Stommeln
  8. ↑ http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/maurizio-cattelan-all
  9. ^ Maurizio Cattelan in the Theseus Temple in Vienna . In: ART | DATES . ( artdates.de [accessed on April 18, 2019]).
  10. ↑ http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/maurizio_cattelan.htm
personal data
SURNAME Cattelan, Maurizio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua , Italy