Maurizio Cattelan

"I have been a failure for most of my life. I couldn't keep a job for more than two months. I couldn't study: school was a torture. And as long as I had to respect the rules I was a disaster. Initially art was just a way to try a new set of rules. But I was very afraid of failure in art as well."
Maurizio Cattelan, quoted from Hans Ulrich Obrist and Thomas Boutoux in Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews.

FORTHCOMING & NEW RELEASES

MAURIZIO CATTELAN IS DEAD
TRIPLE CANDIE
ISBN: 9789609931441 | US $24.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2013
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MAURIZIO HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
LE DICTATEUR PRESS
ISBN: 9782840665175 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2012
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL EBOOK
By Nancy Spector.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: | US $0.00
Pub Date: 02/15/2012
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TOILET PAPER: ISSUE 4
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202783 | US $12.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2011
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: TOILET PAPER
Edited by Karen Marta. Photographs by Pierpaolo Ferrari. Text compiled by James Hoff.
FREEDMAN DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862082105 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2012
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TOILET PAPER: ISSUE 3
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202608 | US $12.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2011
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TOILET PAPER: TAR EDITION
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202745 | US $12.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2011
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TOILET PAPER: ISSUE 2
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202592 | US $12.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2011
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL
By Nancy Spector.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9780892074167 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2011
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CHARLEY INDEPENDENTS
Edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
R CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202318 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 1/31/2011
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TOILET PAPER
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781935202332 | US $12.00
Pub Date: 1/31/2011
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CHARLEY 05
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781933045672 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 7/1/2007
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CHECKPOINT CHARLEY
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9783980426565 | US $14.50
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 14
Edited by Vince Aletti.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564661500 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 4/1/2006
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CHARLEY 03
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781564661067 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2003
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 11
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564661074 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2004
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CHARLEY 02
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
ISBN: 9781564661005 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2003
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 10
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564660992 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2003
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 09
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564661036 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2003
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CHARLEY
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564660923 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 8/2/2002
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN
Essay by Giorgio Verzotti.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881582679 | US $19.95
Pub Date: 2/2/2000
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: PUNKI
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan. Text by Andreas Bee.
WALTHER KöNIG
ISBN: 9783865606020 | US $33.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2009
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 12
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin.
LES PRESSES DU REEL
ISBN: 9781564661197 | US $15.00
Pub Date: 5/2/2004
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN
Edited by Maurizio Cattelan. Text by Giorgio Verzotti.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881581436 | US $16.95
Pub Date: 2/2/1998
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ARTBOOK | D.A.P. Booth & Party at NYABF 2011

This year, thousands of book fans dropped by our booth at the New York Art Book Fair to browse a selection of favorite artists' books, and to pick up a free Maurizio Cattelan-designed tote bag.
On Friday night, ARTBOOK | D.A.P. hosted a cocktail party for friends and colleagues at HL 23.
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ARTBOOK | D.A.P. @ The New York Art Book Fair

Please visit BOOTH B07, where we are featuring Maurizio Cattelan's Toilet Paper, along with a collectible Toilet Paper tote bag, free with purchase, courtesy of Deste publishing.
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Maurizio Cattelan

Featured image is reproduced from Toilet Paper, a collaboration between Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Maurizio Cattelan Is Dead

Life and Work, 1960-2009

Published by Triple Candie

In the summer of 2009, Triple Candie presented Maurizio Cattelan Is Dead: Life & Work, 1960–2009, the first retrospective of the Italian artist’s work. A year later, the exhibition was installed at Deste in Athens. The wall texts were based on information gleaned by Triple Candie during their research and included intentionally re-reported errors from the original sources, uncorrected. By presenting that which becomes lost in the disconnect between artist and admirer, curator and critic, through the process of retelling and circulating information, the exhibitions, in Harlem and Athens--and now the book--ask the public to examine how one’s own perceptions are influenced by the mediums through which we view artwork. Edited and published by Triple Candie, the book intends, as the exhibitions did, to question narrative reliability. At the time of both shows and the publication of the book, the artist was still very much alive.

Maurizio Has Left the Building

Retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan's Last Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum New York

Edited by Pierpaolo Ferrari, Sebastiano Mastroeni. Drawings by Matteo Nuti. Text by Caroline Corbetta.
Published by Le Dictateur Press

Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. Upon the occasion of his 2011 Guggenheim retrospective, All, Cattelan astonished the art world by announcing his retirement from art, declaring that he would instead focus on the production of his magazine Toilet Paper. For the exhibition, Cattelan hung his entire oeuvre--128 works--from the middle of the Guggenheim’s rotunda, in a sensational gesture of both witty irreverence and summary completion. Maurizio Has Left the Building is the artist’s documentation of this landmark exhibition. Created by Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, the publication is composed of several unbound signatures of installation photographs, with drawings by Matteo Nuti, text by Caroline Corbetta, under the art direction of Sebastiano Mastroeni. This oversize volume conveys the multidimensionality of Cattelan’s last installation.

Maurizio Cattelan: All eBook

By Nancy Spector.
Published by Guggenheim Museum

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.
Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) began his career as a furniture designer, transitioning to art through his realistic sculptures. He has had solo exhibitions at some of the most distinguished museums in the world, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has also founded and edited magazines such as Charley, Permanent Food and Toilet Paper. This is the ebook edition of Maurizio Cattelan: All, originally published in print form in November, 2011.

Maurizio Cattelan: Toilet Paper

Edited by Karen Marta. Photographs by Pierpaolo Ferrari. Text compiled by James Hoff.
Published by Freedman Damiani

On the occasion of his sensational retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian provocateur Maurizio Cattelan announced that he was retiring from art. In fact, his new career had already begun in 2010 with Toilet Paper, a magazine-cum-artist's book containing no text, only full spreads of color photographs that appropriate the slick production values of commercial photography to deliver dreamlike (or nightmarish) images. This deluxe volume gathers all of the images published in these five issues, re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with Cattelan; it also includes a significant portion of previously unpublished images. The photographs vary in style and reference, from nineteenth-century crime scene to French New Wave film still; from optical illusions and games to word play. Among its more notorious images are a man dressed as a nun shooting up in a tawdry bedroom and a dirty ear floating in a bowl of yellow soup. In an interview with Vogue Italia, Ferrari said that "the project emerged from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst." This clothbound volume is as appropriate for the coffee table as it is for the toilet.

Toilet Paper: Issue 4

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Specially created by Maurizio Cattelan in collaboration with fellow countryman Pierpaolo Ferrari for Cattelan's major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Toilet Paper 4 is a brilliant new creation from the aberrant, animated mind of the Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times. Published by Deste, this part artist's book, part magazine contains no text; only full spreads of color photographs with imagery that often appropriates the slick production values of commercial photography to deliver dreamlike (or nightmarish) images that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC. In an interview with Vogue Italia, Ferrari said that "the magazine springs from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst."

Toilet Paper: Issue 3

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Toilet Paper is Maurizio Cattelan's newest print enterprise, brought to you straight from the aberrant, animated mind of this Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times. ""Maurizio Cattelan's latest publication, Toilet Paper, follows his previous periodicals, Permanent Food and Charley, with what appears to be a slim folio of appropriated photographs. [...] TP contains no text, only a series of double-page spreads reminiscent of Permanent Food's wildly unpredictable mash-up of styles,"" says Vince Aletti in Photograph Magazine. Conceived in collaboration with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published by Deste, Toilet Paper 3 was inspired by Robert Rauschenberg and Thomas Hirschhorn, and features a series of powerful visual tableaux that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC.

Toilet Paper: Tar Edition

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Published for the release of the Summer 2011 issue of Tar, Toilet Paper: Tar Edition is a special edition of this extravagant publication, gathering the worst images from the first three issues of Toilet Paper into one volume. Part magazine, part artist's book, Toilet Paper is conceived and edited by Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times Maurizio Cattelan, and his fellow countryman photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. Published by Deste, Toilet Paper contains no text; only full spreads of photographs, replete with twisted narratives and surrealistic imagery that often appropriate the slick production values of commercial photography to deliver dreamlike (or nightmarish) tableaux that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC.

Toilet Paper: Issue 2

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Brought to you by the aberrant, animated mind of Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker, and macabre witness to our times Maurizio Cattelan, Toilet Paper 2 follows closely on the heels of the inaugural issue of Cattelan's most recent print extravaganza. "The magazine springs from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common," collaborator photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari said in an interview in Vogue Italia. "Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst." Published by Deste, this part magazine, part artist's book blends commercial photography with warped narratives and surrealistic imagery, creating a series of powerful images that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC.

Maurizio Cattelan: All

By Nancy Spector.
Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications

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.
Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) began his career as a furniture designer, transitioning to art through his realistic sculptures. He has had solo exhibitions at some of the most distinguished museums in the world, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He has also founded and edited magazines such as Charley, Permanent Food and Toilet Paper.

Charley Independents

No Soul For Sale

Edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Published by r Contemporary Art

Charley Independents looks at international artist collectives and curatorial organizations that are initiating strategies for the distribution of art: 98 Weeks Research Project, Arrow Factory, Cemeti Art House, Invisible Academy, Latitudes, Light Industry, Mono.kultur, Collective Parasol, Post-Museum, Scrawl Collective and many others. Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Toilet Paper

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Following in the wake of Maurizio Cattelan's cult publications Permanent Food and Charley, this inaugural issue of the artist's newest print enterprise Toilet Paper comes straight from the aberrant, animated mind of the Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times. Conceived in collaboration with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published by Deste, Toilet Paper contains no text but combines commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery to create a journal that is as appropriate for the coffee table as it is for the WC. Contributors to this founding issue include Jacopo Emiliani, Alberto Zanetti, Elisabetta Claudio, Federico Albertini and Andrea Mineo.

Maurizio Cattelan: Punki

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan. Text by Andreas Bee.
Published by Walther König

Jolly Rotten Punki is a richly illustrated game of deception in book form, as well as an unconventional new work from the master agent provocateur of the contemporary art scene.

Charley 05

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Charley is an approximately annual publication edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, and designed by The Purtill Family Business. It is as visual as a magazine and as substantial as a book, but refuses to abide by either genre's rules. Following earlier editions on the 2001-2002 New York art season, on neglected artists from the 80s and early 90s, and on museum acquisitions, this new volume rounds up the stray dogs of contemporary art--Charley 5 features artists who have remained forgotten, proudly secluded or just unnoticed, in spite of their visionary work. Its galleries of obsessions mix professionals and amateurs, cult figures and unknowns, unheard prophets, voluntary outcasts and great solitary masters and freaks, celebrating the extreme subjectivity of more than 50 voices and implicitly questioning accepted hierarchies in the process. The editors have said of their recent work, "it's a way to say, look around…The latest issues of Charley are a lot about 'What ifs': what if there were many more artists than we actually speak about? What if our artist list was just partial and irrelevant?"
Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Checkpoint Charley

Charley 04

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Charley is a series of publications edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick. A voracious creature fixated on the assimilation and consumption of visual art, the fourth issue, Checkpoint Charley, brings together images of works produced by more than 700 artists encountered by the curators of the 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art during their research. A multiform creature, Charley takes on a new theme and shape with every issue: the first featured 400 emerging artists, the second documented the 2001-2002 New York art season, and Charley 03 presented forgotten artists from the 80s and early 90s. The 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Checkpoint Charley is realized with the support of the Culture 2000 program of the European Union.

Permanent Food No. 14

Edited by Vince Aletti.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

The word "appropriate" can have two very different meanings depending on whether it is used as an adjective or a verb. In the case of Permanent Food, artist Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin's periodical of pilfering, it is the active usage of the word, and only the active usage, that is appropriate. Bound together in each issue is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque and blasª selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere and nowhere: a German electrical company's ad featuring Tom and Jerry; a trash-strewn airplane interior; a naked fashion model with wide tan lines; a detail of a Victorian dummy; "super-tech" eyelashes by MAC; a naked woman with her toes in a skeleton's eye and nose sockets; a Mapplethorpe photograph of two leather men; a sweet ceramic puppy; a snow field; a crashed VW beetle; and much, much more. You can't even imagine how much more.

Permanent Food No. 12

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

The word appropriate can have two very different meanings depending on whether it is used as an adjective or a verb. In the case of Permanent Food, artist Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin's periodical of pilfering, it is the active usage of the word, and only the active usage, that is appropriate. Bound together in each issue is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasª selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere: a German electrical company's ad featuring Tom and Jerry; a trash-strewn airplane interior; a naked fashion model with wide tan lines; a detail of a Victorian dummy; super-tech eyelashes by MAC; a naked woman with her toes in a skeleton's eye and nose sockets; a Mapplethorpe photograph of two leather men; a sweet ceramic puppy; a snow field; a crashed VW beetle; and much, much more. You can't even imagine how much more.

Charley 03

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Charley 03 is a time machine, bringing out the past and casting it into a new light. Charley 03 presents one hundred artists from the 80s and 90s. Playing with memory and amnesia, Charley 03 presents--in a new frame--the works that have shaped two decades of contemporary art. Suspended between nostalgia and archeology, Charley 03 writes a small history of what-ifs: a scenario that speaks about the instability of taste as it undermines the hierarchies of art history. Yesterday begins tomorrow. A multiform creature, Charley is bound to transform at each new appearance. The first issue featured 400 emerging artists from around the world, selected by a pool of international artists, curators, critics and art professionals. Charley 02 provided a snapshot of the New York City art season in 2001-2002. Charley is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Permanent Food No. 11

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

Charley 02

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick. Contributions by Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill.
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

The second issue of Charley is a snapshot of the New York City art season from fall 2001 through summer 2002. A predigested combine, it is a memory update that serves both as a playlist and a Who's Who of contemporary art. Charley 02 treats the city as a giant open-air festival of contemporary art; it's a catalog of an imaginary show that unravels in the streets of New York, stretching from Harlem to Chelsea, through SoHo, Queens and Brooklyn. Charley 02 is open to endless transformations: constructed as a collection of 142 color postcards featuring images from the season's most memorable shows and events along with texts, comments, and reviews, it can be shuffled around and rearranged. The postcards can be sent out, pasted on the wall, or glued to the fridge; hierarchies can be shifted, new connections created. Charley 02 is a machine for distribution, a mechanism for spreading and exploiting information, rumors and communication. It is a multiform creature, bound to transform at each new appearance and new issue.
Charley 02 is sponsored by the Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, which supports artist's projects, exhibitions, and symposia that explore the relationship between contemporary art and culture.

Permanent Food No. 10

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

The word “appropriate” can have two very different meanings depending on whether it is used as an adjective or a verb. In the case of Permanent Food, artist Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin's periodical of pilfering, it is the active usage of the word, and only the active usage, that is appropriate. Bound together in each issue is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasª selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere: a German electrical company's ad featuring Tom and Jerry; a trash-strewn airplane interior; a naked fashion model with wide tan lines; a detail of a Victorian dummy; super-tech eyelashes by MAC; a naked woman with her toes in a skeleton's eye and nose sockets; a Mapplethorpe photograph of two leather men; a sweet ceramic puppy; a snow field; a crashed VW beetle; and much, much more. You can't even imagine how much more.

Permanent Food No. 09

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

Charley

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Published by Les Presses du Reel

Charley is a new publication about emerging artists. Prominent curators, writers, artists and other arts professionals from around the world were asked to suggest up to 10 up-and-coming artists and/or submit materials on the artists for inclusion in Charley. Four hundred art makers from around the globe responded, and each of them is represented by one page.

Maurizio Cattelan

Essay by Giorgio Verzotti.
Published by Charta

This monograph, published on the occasion of Cattelan's first solo exhibition in New York, surveys a number of installations that are now part of the Castello di Rivoli collection. "For Cattelan, art is a device for survival," writes essayist and contributor Giorgio Verzotti, "and the works are tools for coping with that great cosmic joke that is life."

Maurizio Cattelan

Edited by Maurizio Cattelan. Text by Giorgio Verzotti.
Published by Charta

This catalogue documents three installations by Cattelan for the Castello di Rivoli collection. Cattelan is one of today's most important young sculptors.