Maurizio Cattelan

 
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960 in Padova, Italy, lives in New York and Milan) has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist, Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures that reveal contradictions at the core of today's society. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing critique of authority and the abuse of power.
Maurizio Cattelan is one of the leading contemporary artist and his works are much desired collector's items that often reach astronomically high prices at auction sales—although the artist is not dead yet.
He runs the artist's magazine Permanent Food, Charley and Toilet Paper.
 
Maurizio Cattelan - Maurizio Has Left the Building (box set)
2012
English edition
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at the Guggenheim New York in an extraordinary box set (photos by Pierpaolo Ferrari).
Maurizio Cattelan - Le Dictateur - Solid Sweat – Cattelan / Ferrari / Pepe / Presicce / Vascellari
2011
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Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Special issue: five new projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe, Luigi Presicce, and Nico Vascellari (limited edition).
Maurizio Cattelan - 6th Caribbean Biennal - A Project by Maurizio Cattelan
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A true false Caribbean biennial imagined by Maurizio Cattelan for ten real artists.


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