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6th Caribbean BiennalA Project by Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan - 6th Caribbean Biennal
A true false biennial imagined by Maurizio Cattelan, who offers ten chosen artists a one-week vacation on the enchanting island of St. Kitts, with no art and no work to do. Only the photos by Armin Linke and the artists' special contributions are what remains of this disturbing event.
With Vanessa Beecroft, Olafur Eliasson, Douglas Gordon, Mariki Mori, Chirs Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Peyton, Pipilotti Rist, Tobias Rehberger, Rirkrit Tiravanija.
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.
Co-published with Janvier.
 
published in 2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
20,5 x 26,2 cm (hardcover)
200 pages (260 colour illustrations)
 
37.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-84066-050-7
EAN : 9782840660507
 
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