MAURIZIO CATTELAN (NE EN 1960)

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MAURIZIO CATTELAN (NE EN 1960)
Untitled (Zorro), 1997 Acrylic on canvas Acrylic on canvas. H_100,2 cm W_120 cm Provenance: - Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan - Private collection, Monaco - Private collection, Paris "I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people." Born in 1960, in Padua (Italy). Lives and works in New York (United States) Maurizio Cattelan has made his mark since the early 1990s with a body of work whose spectacular and provocative forms, ranging from the most outrageous comedy to the melancholy register, highlight the contradictions of contemporary society. Acting as a media operator, he inscribes his works in the socio-political field. Staging, at the beginning of his career, his exit from the aesthetic territory as an escape from prison, he conceives his creations as "images", which, for the most famous of them, mobilize the over-mediatized or controversial personalities of Picasso, Pope John Paul II or Hitler. At the same time, he develops, notably through the animal metaphor, works that are figures of death or failure. His practice can take the most varied forms: from sculpture to the creation of a tiny gallery, from the organization of exhibitions to the publishing of newspapers.
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