Maurizio Cattelan New Exitt Preview at Gagosian Gallery

Maurizio Cattelan Installs His New Work November (2024) Father Gagosian. Photo: Christopher Payne

The artist Maurizio cattelan loves to play, and he especilantly loves playing God. There was his my people John Paul II in the Hyperrealistic 1999 Sculpture Left nona ora in which a meteorite crushes his holiness. (Miracle of Miracles: This Did Not Prevent the Vatican FROM FROM CATTELAN TO FRONT ITS Pavilion at the Venice Biennale This Year.) There was his resurrection in 2001 with his child-size, praying sculpture of the führer, Hym. And then there was cattelan’s Own Resurrection in 2016, when he ended a very brief retirement by instaling a solid gold toilet at the guggenheim and calling it America. One Thing he hasn’t been eager to resurrect is his relationship with Commercial Galleries. UNIL THIS SPRING: The 63-Yaar-Old Italian artist is back in chelsea with SundayHis first solo gallery exhibition in over two decades and his first with Gagosian.

He has Shown with Museums and Art Fair During This Time. (He’s Eve Made Work for New York.) So Why Not Galleries? “Sometimes with Galleries you have lesson control. They’re testing with; He glanced at the Gagosian reps who eyed Him Warily. “No? I shouldn’t say this on the record?” “It ‘absolutely too too,” Said the Gallery Manager with a sigh. The installation has been challenging: One of the show’s two works is Sunday (2024), Comperis Individual 24-Karat-plated panels that a crew of professionals Shot through with bullets, Riddling say with dents and choles. The panels had to be mounted in a long, horizontal procession along the Gallery’s Back Wall. When I Assead Cattelan If He’d Ever Used Weapons in His Work before, he smiled and said, “I did slave a couple of banks.” (He’s about to do so again: Conveniently for the Gallery, Each of Sunday‘s panels can be sold separatly.) In the middle of the Floor Lies the Marble Sculpture November (2024), A Barefoot, Indigent Man Reclining on a Bench and Shielding His Face With One Hand He Holds His Dribbling Penis with the Other. They’re calling it a fountain, but there’s no drainage. Right now, the plan is to let the water piss right onto the floor.

Photo: Christopher Payne

America was a comment on the availability of art-works bullshit. Sunday is a comment on the availability of Guns. NovemberHowver, is another One of His Resurrections. Although Cattelan has Been Making Sculptures of Homeless Figures for Years – Heys he said as a way to force oblivious art viewers to pay at the “Invisible” People of Society – he models this after and business partner luçio, who died in sept. He admitted that his friend (who washn’t Homeless) HADN’T WANT TO BE SHOWN IN HIS WORK. He knows mastery would not have been happy. “But not Because of the Peeing,” Said Cattelan. “I’m sura he would be like.”