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Maurizio Cattelan’s Enormous Wall of Kitsch
A shiny bauble meant to comment on capitalism and to sell.
To create this enormous piece of kitsch, the artist had several marksmen fire over 20,000 rounds of bullets at 64 gold-covered plates in a professional shooting facility in New York. A VIP audience was in attendance, including Jeff Koons, who opined that the end result was “celestial.” At the opening in late April at Larry Gagosian’s gigantic 21st Street gallery, he imprinted the phrase “Beware of Yourself” on people with a stamp. His infamous Comedian,a banana duct-taped to a wall, exemplifies a very rare phenomenon: a terrible work of art that opens interesting aesthetic questions.
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