La Nona Ora" [The Ninth Hour] (1999) is Cattelan's most famous and controversial work. It is a wax figure of Pope Jean Paul II felled by a meteor (errant or perhaps divinely directed). The work takes its title from the hour of Jesus Christ's death.
In a press article, Cattelan explained the meaning. "I had immense respect for Pope John Paul II. Even old and tired, afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, he still kept doggedly touring the world. For an exhibit I made a statue of the Pope holding his staff with the crucifix on top, and together with my Milanese gallerist friend, I propped him up in a room carpeted in red. The result was appalling." The work was revised. "We even broke the skylight to make it seem as though the rock were a meteorite sent by God to stop his overzealous servant from accepting any burden. There were some who believed that the work was a provocation and a sign of contempt, but they were way off base: It was actually an act of mercy."
Maurizio Cattelan has been hailed simultaneously as provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times. Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art — from unsettling sculptures to installations that reveal contradictions at the core of society.
This 22 year retrospective marked the first time nearly 130 works from around the world encapsulating the artist’s career were assembled into a single exhibition. It was Cattelan's first major museum show since 2002. The show was a dramatic, site-specific installation within the Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright – designed rotunda. Although only 51, the artist announced his intention to retire at the end of the exhibition. He plans to move to his next phase.
The New York Times called the Maurizio Cattelan exhibit, " one of the strangest, most audacious exhibitions in its half-century history, suspending several thousand pounds’ — and many tens of millions of dollars’ — worth of high-end, internationally collected art from cables attached to a heavy-duty aluminum truss installed almost 90 feet in the air under the museum’s glass dome"
Maurizio Cattelan works include framed photos, paintings, stuffed horses, sleeping dogs, a sitting cow, a dead squirrel, mannequins, numerous self-portraits, and assorted oddities, all floating in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda.
The MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL exhibition was critically acclaimed by both the public and art critics.
La Nona Ora" [The Ninth Hour] (1999) is Cattelan's most famous and controversial work. It is a wax figure of Pope Jean Paul II felled by a meteor (errant or perhaps divinely directed). The work takes its title from the hour of Jesus Christ's death.
In a press article, Cattelan explained the meaning. "I had immense respect for Pope John Paul II. Even old and tired, afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, he still kept doggedly touring the world. For an exhibit I made a statue of the Pope holding his staff with the crucifix on top, and together with my Milanese gallerist friend, I propped him up in a room carpeted in red. The result was appalling." The work was revised. "We even broke the skylight to make it seem as though the rock were a meteorite sent by God to stop his overzealous servant from accepting any burden. There were some who believed that the work was a provocation and a sign of contempt, but they were way off base: It was actually an act of mercy."
Maurizio Cattelan has been hailed simultaneously as provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times. Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art — from unsettling sculptures to installations that reveal contradictions at the core of society.
This 22 year retrospective marked the first time nearly 130 works from around the world encapsulating the artist’s career were assembled into a single exhibition. It was Cattelan's first major museum show since 2002. The show was a dramatic, site-specific installation within the Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright – designed rotunda. Although only 51, the artist announced his intention to retire at the end of the exhibition. He plans to move to his next phase.
The New York Times called the Maurizio Cattelan exhibit, " one of the strangest, most audacious exhibitions in its half-century history, suspending several thousand pounds’ — and many tens of millions of dollars’ — worth of high-end, internationally collected art from cables attached to a heavy-duty aluminum truss installed almost 90 feet in the air under the museum’s glass dome"
Maurizio Cattelan works include framed photos, paintings, stuffed horses, sleeping dogs, a sitting cow, a dead squirrel, mannequins, numerous self-portraits, and assorted oddities, all floating in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda.
The MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL exhibition was critically acclaimed by both the public and art critics.
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