マウリツィオ・カテラン @ ガゴシアン NY 2024 Maurizio Cattelan @ Gagosian New York 2024
Caro Maurizio,
chapeau.
You did it again.
Mi raccomando… fai il bravo
Mario
The wall is composed of 64 individual steel panels which have been plated in 24-karat gold and modified—to use the artist and the curator’s preferred verb—by gunfire.
Instead of creating a monumental piece in Sunday, Gagosian is selling the panels individually. Each panel is a little more than 4 feet by 4 feet, a good “domestic” size for collectors to live with. You can easily see one of the panels hanging in an expensive house denuded of its religious effect, its social critique reduced to cocktail chatter. The asking price is $375,000 per panel, making what’s on the wall at Gagosian right now a $24 million work (addition panels may be created). But it will be sold in pieces to make the work more easily displayed and owned. Early reports suggest the panels have been selling well.
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2024/maurizio-cattelan-curated-by-francesco-bonami/
Maurizio Cattelan’s Armed Art Helpers
To create the gold-plated steel panels now on sale at the Gagosian gallery, the Italian artist hired licensed shooters to riddle them with bullets, in front of spectators like Jeff Koons.
By Calvin Tomkins, May 6, 2024
Quotes:
In an industrial building in Brooklyn last weekend, two men and a woman sat on folding chairs in a narrow, low-ceilinged room, blasting away with high-calibre firearms at three large gold-plated stainless-steel panels, one per shooter. The shooters, all of them licensed, were creating works of art. Sixty-four similarly assaulted panels would be shown at an exhibition, opening days later at the Gagosian gallery, by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, who was observing the massacre with a few invited guests. He let it be known that he had never touched a gun and probably never would.
To the spectators, who sat behind a glass wall and wore sound-reduction earmuffs, the noise was tremendous. After a few minutes, the firing stopped, long enough for each shooter to be handed a different gun, and then it resumed. Five types of guns were used, and the bullets left different marks. One pierced the steel, leaving a small, neat hole. A twelve-gauge Beretta made large dents. “That one is for shooting wild boar,” Cattelan whispered, eating a bagel. (Later, Ryan Washburn, who had organized the event, refuted this. “No, no, no—that’s just Maurizio,” he said, laughing.)
Cattelan, a tall, sixty-three-year-old Italian with silver hair, who was wearing a black hoodie that read “GIVE SARCASM A CHANCE,” had been quoted saying that the target of his Gagosian show was the spread of gun violence in the United States. At the range, though, he said that the work was not about gun violence. “It’s about violence,” he said, “and I use weapons as brushes.”
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“Gold is a way of hiding and seducing our gaze,” Cattelan said at the range. “When gold and violence meet, it triggers something. There is a fatal attraction.” ♦
Full text:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/maurizio-cattelans-armed-art-helpers
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Caro Maurizio, you did it again
…fai il bravo
https://art-culture.world/articles/caro-maurizio-you-did-it-again/
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https://art-culture.world/articles/larry-gagosian-anna-weyant/
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https://art-culture.world/articles/takashi-murakami-kaikai-kiki-japanese-art-world/
“We are completely immersed in violence every day, and we’ve gotten used to it. The repetition has made us accept violence as inevitable.”
Maurizio Cattelan, April 2024