Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays
"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.
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. read the full post
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Karen Marta, Massimiliano Gioni. Text by Massimiliano Gioni.
New York– and Milan-based artist Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has provoked controversy and admiration alike with his subversive sculptures, installations and publications. His playful, satirical body of work—which includes Comedian (2019), a banana duct-taped to the wall at ArtBasel Miami Beach, and America (2016), the 18-karat gold toilet he later installed in the Guggenheim’s restroom—reflects a pointed critique of institutional and cultural norms in the art world and society at large. Part of the 2000 Words series conceived by Massimiliano Gioni and published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, this monograph contains an essay by Gioni that excerpts his previous writings on Cattelan, his close friend and collaborator.
Published by Marsilio Editori. Edited by Roberta Tenconi, Vicente Todolí. Text by Francesco Bonami, Nancy Spector, Arnon Grunberg, Andrea Pinotti, Timothy Verdon.
Accompanying Maurizio Cattelan’s (born 1960) solo exhibition of the same name at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Breath Ghosts Blind follows the artist’s first show in Italy for many years. The exhibition intermixes the artist’s classic pieces with a new body of work, paralleling the show’s thematic core: the cycle of life and the relationship between individual and collective memory. The fully illustrated hardcover monograph delves into these themes, featuring analysis from an array of critics, philosophers and theologians, including Francesco Bonami, Nancy Spector, Arnon Grunberg, Andrea Pinotti and Monsignor Timothy Verdon. It also features an in-depth conversation between the exhibition’s curators and Cattelan himself.
Published by Marsilio. Edited by Roberta Tenconi, Vicente Todolí with Fiammetta Griccioli. Text by Maurizio Cattelan with Marta Papini, Michele Robecchi.
This massive volume, published in conjunction with the artist's exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, collects for the first time all of the conversations that Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has been conducting for 20 years, as interviewer. The dialogues, of which there are more than 130, were published between 2001 and 2021 in numerous magazines, including Flash Art Italia, International, Purple Magazine, Vogue and Il Manifesto, as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogs. Maurizio Cattelan: Index presents these conversations in facsimile form, maintaining the text and original layout of each publication, resulting in a lively kaleidoscope of voices and images. Appraising the list of people interviewed and reading the texts, an astonishing chorus takes shape, comprising young and upcoming artists, established figures and those who are now deceased and part of history, as well as creatives from other disciplines such as architects, designers, chefs, thinkers, entertainers and performers. Among the interviewees are luminaries such as Alighiero Boetti, Phil Collins, Ferran Adrià, Alex Da Corte, Seth Price, Urs Fischer, Dash Snow, Martine Syms, Paul Chan, Carol Rama, Takashi Murakami, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, George Condo, Jerry Saltz, Virgil Abloh, Chloë Sevigny, Dana Schutz and more.
Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications. By Nancy Spector.
The Guggenheim Museum’s sold-out publication Maurizio Cattelan: All is returning to print. Hailed as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in contemporary art--most notoriously “The Ninth Hour” (1999), a sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Derived from popular culture, history and organized religion, Cattelan’s subjects range widely, and his work, while bold and irreverent, is deadly serious in its scathing cultural critiques.
The second edition of All updates the catalogue that accompanied the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s 2011–12 retrospective survey of the artist. For this exhibition, Cattelan sidestepped the totalizing effect of a retrospective by devising a site-specific installation in which his entire oeuvre was suspended from the oculus of the museum’s iconic rotunda. This book offers an equally unique response to the conventions of the catalogue. It is a faux-leatherbound hardcover with gold stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old textbook or bible. The volume details almost every work of Cattelan’s from the late ’80s to the present within a double-column page format, featuring full-color reproductions and accompanying entries.
The revised edition describes the artist’s return to art making after a five-year “retirement” with a special, ongoing project opening at the Guggenheim in May 2016. It also features a redesigned cover and installation images of the exhibition All. Nancy Spector has augmented her critical overview of Cattelan--which documents not only his artistic output but also his ongoing activities as a curator, editor and publisher--with a new coda. Since its original publication, All has become the Cattelan bible, and this revised edition exploring the latest chapter of the artist’s influential career ensures it will remain the definitive source on his work for years to come.
Nancy Spector is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Brooklyn Museum as of April 2016. She was formerly the Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Guggenheim Museum since 1989.
Published by Damiani. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
This limited edition of 500 copies comes with a special Toilet Paper fan. Toilet Paper is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts. Since the first issue in June 2010, Toilet Paper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery.
In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first Toiletpaper anthology, Toiletpaper Volume II: Platinum Collection presents a selection of the best images from the past five issues of Toiletpaper magazine, the creative collaboration of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. The book also includes special projects shot by Cattelan and Ferrari for such publications as Purple, New York Magazine, Kenzine, Le Monde and Dazed & Confused. Along with the outrageous and inventive images, Toiletpaper Volume II contains an eclectic collection of texts, ranging from Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose to an excerpt of a California law regarding frog jumping to a list of inventors killed by their own inventions. This is a limited edition publication of 1,000 copies, each of which is accompanied by a watch created by the Toiletpaper team.
Since its very first issue in June 2010, Toilet Paper magazine, the brainchild of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, has celebrated the riotous and repulsive image. In an interview with Vogue Italia, Ferrari said that "the project emerged 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." Each issue of the magazine features full spreads of surrealistic color photographs, shot in the slick style and eye-popping hues of commercial photography, unencumbered and unmediated by text. Despite Cattelan's alleged retirement from art, Toilet Paper has shown no signs of slowing down, spawning calendars, books, vinyl records and homewares, as well as the biannual magazine. In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first Toilet Paper anthology, Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari: Toilet Paper, Volume II presents a selection of the best images from the past five issues of Toilet Paper magazine alongside special projects shot by Cattelan and Ferrari for such publications as Purple, New York Magazine, Kenzine, Le Monde and Dazed & Confused. All are collected in this deluxe hardcover volume, a book as at home on the coffee table as it is in the bathroom.
Published by Damiani. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, Marta Papini.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Shit and Die (curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah and Marta Papini), Shit and Die: Maurizio Cattelan Photographed by Ari Marcopoulos is printed in a limited edition of 25 copies, and includes a portrait of Maurizio Cattelan photographed by Ari Marcopoulos, the book Shit and Die edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah and Marta Papini, and the zine by Marcopoulos. Shit and Die explores the human condition and its torments, featuring an array of established and emerging visual artists such as Davide Balula, Guy Ben-Ner, Petrit Halilaj, Dorothy Iannone, Yan Pei-Ming, Carol Rama, George Condo, Martin Creed, Jim Shaw and Andra Ursuta.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Brought to you by the aberrant, animated mind of Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker, and macabre witness to our times Maurizio Cattelan, Toilet Paper 2 follows closely on the heels of the inaugural issue of Cattelan's most recent print extravaganza. "The magazine springs from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common," collaborator photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari said in an interview in Vogue Italia. "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." Published by Deste, this part magazine, part artist's book blends commercial photography with warped narratives and surrealistic imagery, creating a series of powerful images that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC.
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. This is the ebook edition of Maurizio Cattelan: All, originally published in print form in November, 2011.
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In the summer of 2009, Triple Candie presented Maurizio Cattelan Is Dead: Life & Work, 1960–2009, the first retrospective of the Italian artist’s work. A year later, the exhibition was installed at Deste in Athens. The wall texts were based on information gleaned by Triple Candie during their research and included intentionally re-reported errors from the original sources, uncorrected. By presenting that which becomes lost in the disconnect between artist and admirer, curator and critic, through the process of retelling and circulating information, the exhibitions, in Harlem and Athens--and now the book--ask the public to examine how one’s own perceptions are influenced by the mediums through which we view artwork. Edited and published by Triple Candie, the book intends, as the exhibitions did, to question narrative reliability. At the time of both shows and the publication of the book, the artist was still very much alive.
Retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan's Last Exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum New York
Published by Le Dictateur Press. Edited by Pierpaolo Ferrari, Sebastiano Mastroeni. Drawings by Matteo Nuti. Text by Caroline Corbetta.
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.
PUBLISHER Le Dictateur Press
BOOK FORMAT Boxed, pbk, 11.5 x 16 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 5/31/2012 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2012 p. 94
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9782840665175TRADE List Price: $75.00 CAD $90.00
Published by Freedman|Damiani. Edited by Dennis Freedman. Text compiled by James Hoff.
On the occasion of his sensational retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Italian provocateur Maurizio Cattelan announced that he was retiring from art. In fact, his new career had already begun in 2010 with Toilet Paper, a magazine-cum-artist's book containing no text, only full spreads of color photographs that appropriate the slick production values of commercial photography to deliver dreamlike (or nightmarish) images. This deluxe volume gathers all of the images published in the first five issues, re-edited by Dennis Freedman in collaboration with Cattelan; it also includes a significant portion of previously unpublished images. The photographs vary in style and reference, from nineteenth-century crime scene to French New Wave film still; from optical illusions and games to word play. Among its more notorious images are a man dressed as a nun shooting up in a tawdry bedroom and a dirty ear floating in a bowl of yellow soup. In an interview with Vogue Italia, Ferrari said that "the project emerged 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." This clothbound volume is as appropriate for the coffee table as it is for the toilet.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Following in the wake of Maurizio Cattelan's cult publications Permanent Food and Charley, this inaugural issue of the artist's newest print enterprise Toilet Paper comes straight from the aberrant, animated mind of the Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times. Conceived in collaboration with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published by Deste, Toilet Paper contains no text but combines commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery to create a journal that is as appropriate for the coffee table as it is for the WC. Contributors to this founding issue include Jacopo Emiliani, Alberto Zanetti, Elisabetta Claudio, Federico Albertini and Andrea Mineo.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
Charley Independents looks at international artist collectives and curatorial organizations that are initiating strategies for the distribution of art: 98 Weeks Research Project, Arrow Factory, Cemeti Art House, Invisible Academy, Latitudes, Light Industry, Mono.kultur, Collective Parasol, Post-Museum, Scrawl Collective and many others. 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.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Toilet Paper is Maurizio Cattelan's newest print enterprise, brought to you straight from the aberrant, animated mind of this Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times. ""Maurizio Cattelan's latest publication, Toilet Paper, follows his previous periodicals, Permanent Food and Charley, with what appears to be a slim folio of appropriated photographs. [...] TP contains no text, only a series of double-page spreads reminiscent of Permanent Food's wildly unpredictable mash-up of styles,"" says Vince Aletti in Photograph Magazine. Conceived in collaboration with photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari and published by Deste, Toilet Paper 3 was inspired by Robert Rauschenberg and Thomas Hirschhorn, and features a series of powerful visual tableaux that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
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."
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Published for the release of the Summer 2011 issue of Tar, Toilet Paper: Tar Edition is a special edition of this extravagant publication, gathering the worst images from the first three issues of Toilet Paper into one volume. Part magazine, part artist's book, Toilet Paper is conceived and edited by Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times Maurizio Cattelan, and his fellow countryman photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. Published by Deste, Toilet Paper contains no text; only full spreads of photographs, replete with twisted narratives and surrealistic imagery that often appropriate the slick production values of commercial photography to deliver dreamlike (or nightmarish) tableaux that are as appropriate for the coffee table as they are for the WC.
Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications. By Nancy Spector.
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.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan. Text by Andreas Bee.
Jolly Rotten Punki is a richly illustrated game of deception in book form, as well as an unconventional new work from the master agent provocateur of the contemporary art scene.
Published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick.
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.
PUBLISHER DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 368 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 7/1/2007 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 94
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781933045672TRADE List Price: $29.95 CAD $35.00
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
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.
PUBLISHER Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 712 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 3/1/2006 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 141
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783980426565TRADE List Price: $14.50 CAD $17.50
Published by Les Presses du Reel. Edited by Vince Aletti.
The word "appropriate" can have two very different meanings depending on whether it is used as an adjective or a verb. In the case of Permanent Food, artist Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin's periodical of pilfering, it is the active usage of the word, and only the active usage, that is appropriate. Bound together in each issue is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque and blasª selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere and nowhere: a German electrical company's ad featuring Tom and Jerry; a trash-strewn airplane interior; a naked fashion model with wide tan lines; a detail of a Victorian dummy; "super-tech" eyelashes by MAC; a naked woman with her toes in a skeleton's eye and nose sockets; a Mapplethorpe photograph of two leather men; a sweet ceramic puppy; a snow field; a crashed VW beetle; and much, much more. You can't even imagine how much more.
PUBLISHER Les Presses du Reel
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 194 pgs / illustrated throughout.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 4/1/2006 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 141
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564661500TRADE List Price: $15.00 CAD $17.50
Published by Les Presses du Reel. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin.
The word appropriate can have two very different meanings depending on whether it is used as an adjective or a verb. In the case of Permanent Food, artist Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin's periodical of pilfering, it is the active usage of the word, and only the active usage, that is appropriate. Bound together in each issue is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasª selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere: a German electrical company's ad featuring Tom and Jerry; a trash-strewn airplane interior; a naked fashion model with wide tan lines; a detail of a Victorian dummy; super-tech eyelashes by MAC; a naked woman with her toes in a skeleton's eye and nose sockets; a Mapplethorpe photograph of two leather men; a sweet ceramic puppy; a snow field; a crashed VW beetle; and much, much more. You can't even imagine how much more.
PUBLISHER Les Presses du Reel
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 196 pgs / 196 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 5/2/2004 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2004
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564661197TRADE List Price: $15.00 CAD $17.50
Published by Les Presses du Reel. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Manfrin.
The word “appropriate” can have two very different meanings depending on whether it is used as an adjective or a verb. In the case of Permanent Food, artist Maurizio Cattelan and Paola Manfrin's periodical of pilfering, it is the active usage of the word, and only the active usage, that is appropriate. Bound together in each issue is a thoroughly bewildering, amusing, grotesque, and blasª selection of images culled from anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere: a German electrical company's ad featuring Tom and Jerry; a trash-strewn airplane interior; a naked fashion model with wide tan lines; a detail of a Victorian dummy; super-tech eyelashes by MAC; a naked woman with her toes in a skeleton's eye and nose sockets; a Mapplethorpe photograph of two leather men; a sweet ceramic puppy; a snow field; a crashed VW beetle; and much, much more. You can't even imagine how much more.
PUBLISHER Les Presses du Reel
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 194 pgs / 194 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/2/2003 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564660992TRADE List Price: $15.00 CAD $17.50
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick. Contributions by Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill.
The second issue of Charley is a snapshot of the New York City art season from fall 2001 through summer 2002. A predigested combine, it is a memory update that serves both as a playlist and a Who's Who of contemporary art. Charley 02 treats the city as a giant open-air festival of contemporary art; it's a catalog of an imaginary show that unravels in the streets of New York, stretching from Harlem to Chelsea, through SoHo, Queens and Brooklyn. Charley 02 is open to endless transformations: constructed as a collection of 142 color postcards featuring images from the season's most memorable shows and events along with texts, comments, and reviews, it can be shuffled around and rearranged. The postcards can be sent out, pasted on the wall, or glued to the fridge; hierarchies can be shifted, new connections created. Charley 02 is a machine for distribution, a mechanism for spreading and exploiting information, rumors and communication. It is a multiform creature, bound to transform at each new appearance and new issue. Charley 02 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.
PUBLISHER Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 4 x 6 in. / 144 pgs / 144 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/2/2003 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564661005TRADE List Price: $15.00 CAD $17.50
Published by Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Charley 03 is a time machine, bringing out the past and casting it into a new light. Charley 03 presents one hundred artists from the 80s and 90s. Playing with memory and amnesia, Charley 03 presents--in a new frame--the works that have shaped two decades of contemporary art. Suspended between nostalgia and archeology, Charley 03 writes a small history of what-ifs: a scenario that speaks about the instability of taste as it undermines the hierarchies of art history. Yesterday begins tomorrow. A multiform creature, Charley is bound to transform at each new appearance. The first issue featured 400 emerging artists from around the world, selected by a pool of international artists, curators, critics and art professionals. Charley 02 provided a snapshot of the New York City art season in 2001-2002. 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.
PUBLISHER Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 384 pgs.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/2/2003 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2003
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564661067TRADE List Price: $20.00 CAD $25.00
Published by Les Presses du Reel. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick.
Charley is a new publication about emerging artists. Prominent curators, writers, artists and other arts professionals from around the world were asked to suggest up to 10 up-and-coming artists and/or submit materials on the artists for inclusion in Charley. Four hundred art makers from around the globe responded, and each of them is represented by one page.
PUBLISHER Les Presses du Reel
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 400 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/2/2002 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2002
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781564660923TRADE List Price: $15.00 CAD $17.50
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."
PUBLISHER Charta
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.75 x 11 in. / 64 pgs / 35 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/2/2000 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2000
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Published by Charta. Edited by Maurizio Cattelan. Text by Giorgio Verzotti.
This catalogue documents three installations by Cattelan for the Castello di Rivoli collection. Cattelan is one of today's most important young sculptors.
PUBLISHER Charta
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6.75x 11 in. / 40 pgs / 22 color
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/2/1998 No longer our product
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 1998
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9788881581436TRADE List Price: $16.95 CAD $20.00
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