Lot 220
  • 220

Maurizio Cattelan

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maurizio Cattelan
  • Hollywood
  • c-print face-mounted to plexiglass
  • 175.2 by 397.5 cm. 69 by 156 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is from an edition of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2002

Literature

Exh. Cat., Rivoli, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Form Follows Fiction, 2001-02, pp. 3-4, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unkown)
Francesco Bonami et al., Maurizio Cattelan, London 2003, p. 183, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unkown)
“Art and Its Markets: A Roundtable Discussion”, ArtForum International, Vol. XLVI, April 2008, p. 297, no. 8, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unkown)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Maurizio Cattelan: All, 2011, pp. 110-11, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unkown)

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Visible only upon extremely close inspection in raking light, there are some fine surface scratches and rub marks in isolated places to the plexiglass. Further inspection reveals a small loss to the plexiglass to the extreme upper edge approximately 100cm in from the upper left corner. There are a few small losses to the wooden frame, mostly to the lower edge.
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Catalogue Note

'It's like spraying stardust over the Sicilian landscape: it's a cut and paste dream... I tried to overlap two opposite realities, Sicily and Hollywood: after all, images are just projections of desire, and I wanted to shade their boundaries. It might be a parody, but its also a tribute. It's like freezing the moment in which truth turns into hallucination. There is something hypnotic in Hollywood: it's a sign that immediately speaks about obsessions, failures and ambitions. It is a magnet for contradictions'

MAURIZIO CATTELAN

quoted in ‘Actors and Extras’, Agenda Bender, 29 July 2003, online