Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari: Toilet Paper

Interview

Christopher Bollen

In typical form, the art world's merry prankster [Maurizio Cattelan] has spent his first year of "retirement" working, opening a gallery in Chelsea, and collaborating with creative director Dennis Freedman on a retrospective book of imagery from the first six issues of his beautiful, funny, shocking, eye-popping art magazing TOILETPAPER.

WWD

Kristi Garced

What first appears sometimes squeamish, later becomes hysterically funny. And some things which you think are funny become really disturbing.

V Magazine

Natasha Stagg

If you haven't browsed the anothology of Toilet Paper we suggest you pick one up.

New York Magazine

Hilary Moss

It's like, when a little kid gets a coloring book and there's lots of outlines and there's lots of ideas but you get to fill in the color.

W Magazine

Fan Zhong

Maurizio Cattelan may have, as he claims, retired from making art, but his cunning sense of the mischievous and macabre hasn't stopped haunting the public. Consider the new bookToilet Paper (Freedman/Damiani). a collection of surreal, unsettling images (like the one above) Cattelan and and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari created for their two-year-old magazine of the same name. Paired with similarly peculiar texts (among them Jonathan Swift's devilish satire "A Modest Proposal," which suggested that the Irish should eat their homeless children), the volume reads as one long, extrodinarily vivid dream.

Interview

Christopher Bollen

'I would say that working with Maurizio is a kind of mad, disjointed, lyrical trip that goes up and down, over and around and finally through the woods to a place that you never knew existed before,' Freedman says. A more accurate description of Cattelan's mind has not been uttered.

Details

Jesse Ashlock

You know you're in the home of someone with taste if TOILETPAPER is on display. The Biannual picture mamgazine, founded in 2010 by Italian art provocateur Maurizio Cattelan and fashion photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, abounds with interesting images: a mountain of pink ice cream studded with cigarette butts, two spades protruding from a woman's hindquarters. This collection (Freedman Damiani; $65), which contains the first five issues and unpublished material, is guaranteed to shock, amuse, and telegraph your cultural savvy.

Wallpaper*

James Reid

Nudity, high fashion, fetishwear (and lolipops) feature in surreal and perverse scenarios