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

TOILET PAPER: ISSUE 4
DESTE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: TOILET PAPER
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MAURIZIO HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
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TOILET PAPER: ISSUE 3
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL
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CHARLEY INDEPENDENTS
R CONTEMPORARY ART
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CHARLEY 05
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CHECKPOINT CHARLEY
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 14
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CHARLEY 03
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 11
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CHARLEY 02
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CHARLEY
LES PRESSES DU REEL
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN
CHARTA
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN: PUNKI
WALTHER KöNIG
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PERMANENT FOOD NO. 12
LES PRESSES DU REEL
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MAURIZIO CATTELAN
CHARTA
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FROM THE BLOG

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 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 HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
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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 4
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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.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL
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Charley Independents

No Soul For Sale

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

Charley Independents is a resource compendium on the numerous international artist collectives and curatorial organizations that are initiating unusual strategies for the distribution of art and devising new modes of participation. Published as an installation of Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick's shapeshifting Charley series, it represents the work of more than 80 nonprofit spaces, independent institutions, curatorial offices and artist collectives, from all corners of the world: 98 Weeks Research Project in Beirut, Arrow Factory in Beijing, Capacete Entertainment in Rio de Janeiro, Cemeti Art House in Indonesia, Le Dictateur in Milan, Empty Purse Publications in Brooklyn, FormContent in London, Hell Gallery in Melbourne, Invisible Academy in Bangkok, Latitudes in Barcelona, Light Industry in Brooklyn, Mono.kultur in Berlin, Collective Parasol in Kyoto, Post-Museum in Singapore, Scrawl Collective in London, Thisisnotashop in Dublin, Transformer in Washington, D.C., Tranzit.cz in Prague, X Initiative in New York and many others.

CHARLEY INDEPENDENTS
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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.

CHARLEY 05
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Checkpoint Charley

Charley 04

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

Description: 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.

CHECKPOINT CHARLEY
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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
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