February 9, 2012
Maurizio Cattelan lives in Milan and New York. A manipulator of images and master of provocation, he draws on reality at its crudest to present the tensions and hysteria of the contemporary world, creating constant short-circuits that hold up all its contradictions for public judgment. His works have long delighted and irritated viewers and critics with their independent, uncompromising character. His playful approach to art, pushing the limits of its institutional nature, has always led Cattelan to mingle the roles of artist and curator. In 2002, with Ali Subotnick and Massimiliano Gioni, he co-founded the Wrong Gallery in New York: a shop window on 20th Street that was run like an art gallery. 

Maurizio Cattelan lives in Milan and New York. A manipulator of images and master of provocation, he draws on reality at its crudest to present the tensions and hysteria of the contemporary world, creating constant short-circuits that hold up all its contradictions for public judgment. His works have long delighted and irritated viewers and critics with their independent, uncompromising character. His playful approach to art, pushing the limits of its institutional nature, has always led Cattelan to mingle the roles of artist and curator. In 2002, with Ali Subotnick and Massimiliano Gioni, he co-founded the Wrong Gallery in New York: a shop window on 20th Street that was run like an art gallery. 

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