Confused? Then it's working Jun 18, 2008
The stuffed horse is a 1999 work by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Christov-Bakargiev sees the stiff horse as a metaphor for thwarted revolution. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Toil and rubble Apr 8, 2008
After the success of the last Berlin Biennial - called Of Mice and Men, and with a curatorial team led by artist Maurizio Cattelan - I was nervous that this latest, called When Things Cast No Shadow, would disappoint. It is less spectacular; there are fewer big-name artists. (Guardian Unlimited)
"Death is the major" sculpture show Feb 1, 2008
A nameless work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is seen during a photo call at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, Jan. 31, 2008. The exhibition of work by Cattelan titled "Death is the major," best known for his satirical and controversial sculptures, opens on Feb. 1 and runs until March 24, 2008. (Xinhuanet, China)
Laugh? You must be joking Jan 29, 2008
Almost none of the best artists in the field are here - no Maurizio Cattelan, no Eric van Lieshout, no Elmgreen et, no Paul Noble, no Irwin Wurm, no Sarah Lucas. No Bill Viola, and he's always good for a laugh. (Guardian Unlimited)
Boucheron's 150th: A modern take on Art Nouveau Jan 22, 2008
Daring juxtapositions include Koons to partner the lush, ripe-fruit shapes of the "Gourmand" collection, Hirst with the interlocking golden curlicues of "Audacious," Richard Prince's erotic and exotic photos with the rampant jeweled flowers of "Mysterious" and sculpture from Maurizio Cattelan for the exotic bestiary that is "Curious.". "A brand's anniversary is generally rather boring and narcissistic," said B. (International Herald Tribune)
Slides and sunbathing Nov 2, 2006
Maurizio Cattelan, Anselm Kiefer, Marlene Dumas, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney have similar followings. The modern art masters of the first half of the 20th century never had it so good. (International Herald Tribune)
Calvin Tomkins on George Condo Oct 19, 2006
On hand to help him choose were two of The Wrong Gallery s three founders, the artist Maurizio Cattelan and the curator Massimiliano Gioni. (The third, a freelance curator named Ali Subotnick, was in California. (New Yorker)
- Taxidermy comes back into vogue Aug 8, 2006
In this country, they don't," says Mayer, a singular individual who pinned desiccated rabbits to her bedroom wall as a child. An increasing number of contemporary taxidermists are artists. Maurizio Cattelan, who is based in the US, is famous for sculptures such as The Ballad of Trotsky, a horse suspended from the ceiling. Hirst himself tried and failed to buy all 6,000 pieces of taxidermy in Walter Potter's Museum of Curiosities in Cornwall when the collection was auctioned off in 2003. The... (Guardian Unlimited)
Flights away from harmony, toward parody Jul 1, 2006
In 2002, Maurizio Cattelan, drawing on the century-old "commedia dell'arte" tradition of his native Italy, had two life-size wax figures of New York Police Department officers molded and decked out in their uniforms, complete with caps and badges. Cattelan called them "Frank and Jamie" and, keen to demonstrate his revolutionary fiber, set the pair upside down. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Berlin Biennale, an antidote to the usual May 28, 2006
Titled after John Steinbeck's 1937 novel -- itself inspired by Robert Burns's 1785 poem, Of Mice and Men, the curatorial team Maurizio Cattelan, Ali Subotnick and Massimiliano Gioni, said the biennale was an attempt to broaden some narrative passages and initiate the chains of thoughts that rotate around questions of birth and loss, death and surrender, grief and nostalgia. Indeed this is the mood that pervades the 12 spaces of display along the Auguststrasse in Berlin Mitte, a street which... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Every dog has its day: Bruce Museum exhibit takes a look at man's best friend May 15, 2006
With about 50 paintings, photographs and sculpture, the show includes works by Gerrit Dou, Lucien Freud, Duane Hanson, Philip Reinagle, Theodore Gericault, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Thomas Gainsborough, Jan Baptist Weenix, Jean-Leon Germe, Keith Haring, Maurizio Cattelan, Edwin Henry Landseer, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, John Sargent Noble and Philippe Rousseau, among others, borrowed from private collections and museums around the world. These span a wide period in art history, serving as... (Greenwich Time)
