FOTOS: MAURIZIO CATTELAN EN EL GUGGENHEIM
1/2/12
, Posted by ALEX GUERRERO at 7:21 PM
The Guggenheim Museum presents Maurizio Cattelan as a Menagerie, a hanging one at that, for me and for you to discover. There are so many elements, connections, references, that everyone takes something out of contemplating and exploring this hanging garden of pieces and POVs.
You can go at length basically about anything in here:
from Occupy Wall Street to religion, sex, identity, economics, the
individual and the contradictions. This is a Hall of Mirrors so take a close look at yourself and everything around you. Right there at the Rotunda.
About the artist: "Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur,
prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created
some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art.
His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound.
His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound.
Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist,
Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures that reveal
contradictions at the core of today’s society.
While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing critique of authority and the abuse of power."
(Guggenheim website).
While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing critique of authority and the abuse of power."
(Guggenheim website).
These are some of the pictures I took during the press preview at the
museum. It is a superb show. Take a look and if you are in town, pay a
visit! Enjoy!.
Press play below to see more pictures or follow this link >> CATTELAN.
Photos by Alex Guerrero ® 2011.
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