Maurizio Cattelan

by Spector, Nancy; Bonami, Francesco; Vanderlinden, Barbara; Gioni, Massimiliano

• ISBN13: 9780714843063
• ISBN10: 0714843067
• Edition: Miniature
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Maurizio Cattelan is the best-known Italian artist to have emerged internationally in the 1990s, and his reputation continues to grow. This mini second edition, updated to include all of the artist's work to the present, represents a unique collaboration between Phaidon and this important artist. In fact, Cattelan, who often works with shifts in scale in his sculpture, conceived of this mini edition almost as a work of sculpture itself, creating a highly desirable and collectable object/catalogue.The artist's uncompromising, often dangerous will to provoke his audience is exemplified in the notorious Frankie and Jamie (2002), an image of two wax-figure policemen leaning upside-down against a wall - the artist's own ambiguous commemoration of 9/11. The Update essay is by Massimiliano Gioni, noted critic and curator as well as Cattelan's closest collaborator.

Author Biography

Francesco Bonami is Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as well as Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l'Arte in Turin, Fondazione Pitti Discovery in Florence and the Centro di Arte Contemporanea Villa Manin. He was the director of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and Co-Curator of Manifesta 3 (2000).

Nancy Spector is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. Her exhibitions there have included 'Felix Gonzalez-Torres' (1995), 'Robert Rauschenberg: Performance' (1997) and 'Andreas Slominski' (1999). Spector is a regular contributor to Artforum, Parkett and Frieze.

Barbara Vanderlinden (Focus) is an independent curator who founded and directs the independent exhibition space 'Roomade' in Brusssels. In 1998 she co-curatored of Manifesta 2 (Luxembourg, 1998), which included a new work by Maurizio Cattelan.

Massimiliano Gioni is Curator of Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, and a founding Director of The Wrong Gallery, New York. He has co-curated such international exhibitions as Manifesta 5 (San Sebastian, 2004) and the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).