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Maurizio Cattelan Takes the Piss Out of the Art World
The Italian artist’s first solo gallery show in decades is a provocative commentary on America’s ills.
The installation has been challenging: One of the show’s two works is Sunday(2024), comprising individual 24-karat-plated panels that a crew of professionals shot through with bullets, riddling them with dents and holes. In the middle of the floor lies the marble sculpture November(2024), a barefoot, indigent man reclining on a bench and shielding his face with one hand while he holds his dribbling penis with the other. Although Cattelan has been making sculptures of homeless figures for years — he says he sees them as a way to force oblivious art viewers to pay attention to the “invisible” people of society — he modeled this one after his longtime friend and business partner Lucio Zotti, who died in September.
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