Maurizio Cattelan’s newest body of work comprises startling photographs done in collaboration with commercial photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published in Cattelan’s limited edition magazine Toilet Paper. Colliding commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery these images mark a new phase in Cattelan’s art production. This important body of work is gathered here for the first time in book form re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan.
Maurizio Cattelan began his career as a furniture designer, transitioning to art through his realistic sculptures. Cattelan has exhibited at Skulptur Projekte, Münster , the Tate Gallery, London , the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
, Guggenheim Museum , New York and participated in the Venice Biennale . He was a finalist for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize in 2000, received an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2004, and was also awarded the Arnold-Bode
prize from the Kunstverein Kassel, Germany, that same year. He has also founded and edited magazines such as Charley, Permanent Food and Toiletpaper. He is represented by Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, Massimo de Carlo in Milan and Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.
Maurizio Cattelan’s newest body of work comprises startling photographs done in collaboration with commercial photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published in Cattelan’s limited edition magazine Toilet Paper. Colliding commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery these images mark a new phase in Cattelan’s art production. This important body of work is gathered here for the first time in book form re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan.
Maurizio Cattelan began his career as a furniture designer, transitioning to art through his realistic sculptures. Cattelan has exhibited at Skulptur Projekte, Münster , the Tate Gallery, London , the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
, Guggenheim Museum , New York and participated in the Venice Biennale . He was a finalist for the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss prize in 2000, received an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2004, and was also awarded the Arnold-Bode
prize from the Kunstverein Kassel, Germany, that same year. He has also founded and edited magazines such as Charley, Permanent Food and Toiletpaper. He is represented by Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, Massimo de Carlo in Milan and Marian Goodman Gallery in New York.