04 November 2011 - 22 January 2012
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| Maurizio Cattelan
La Rivoluzione siamo noi (We are the Revolution), 2000
Polyester resin, wax, pigment, felt suit, and metal coat rack
figure: 123.8 x 35.6 x 43.2 cm; coat rack: 189.9 x 47 x 52.1 cm.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed
by the International Director's Council and Executive Committee Members
2000.116. Photo: David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation |
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN
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4 November, 2011 – 22 January, 2012
Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of
our times, Italian-born Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most
unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. This retrospective
survey marks the first time that the entirety of Cattelan’s oeuvre will
be assembled into a coherent exhibition narrative, with more than 130
works borrowed from private and public collections around the world,
ranging from the late 1980s to the present.
Cattelan’s 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 and
installations that reveal contradictions at the core of modern-day
society. For this survey exhibition, Cattelan will create a dramatic
site-specific installation in the Guggenheim rotunda designed to
encapsulate his complete production to date.
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