Maurizio Cattelan : All
  • exhibition catalogue
  • leatherette covers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • 25 x 17.3 cm.
  • 255 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780892074167

Maurizio Cattelan : All

Maurizio Cattelan, Nancy Spector

Maurizio Cattelan : All

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 4, 2011–January 22, 2012. "Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art--most notoriously with "The Ninth Hour," his 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Cattelan''''s subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique. Maurizio Cattelan: All accompanies the Guggenheim Museum''''s retrospective survey of the artist. For the exhibition, the museum has devised a site-specific installation intended to sidestep the totalizing effect of a retrospective, and for this catalogue the museum has produced an equally unique response to this dilemma and to the conventions of the catalogue format. All is a faux-leather-bound hardcover with gold stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old textbook or bible. The volume catalogues almost every work of Cattelan''''s from the late ''''80s to the present within a double-column page format, reproducing them in full color with accompanying entries. One of the wittiest and most beautiful art books of recent years, All includes a detailed critical overview by Nancy Spector, documenting not only Cattelan''''s artistic output but also his ongoing activities as a curator, editor and publisher, plus a comprehensive exhibition history and bibliography. Needless to say, All is indeed the definitive Cattelan bible." -- publisher''''s statement.

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