Italian - Artist | September 21, 1960 -
Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.
Maurizio Cattelan
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Rules are simply obstacles to be jumped, like in a horse race: higher and higher every time.
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Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.
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Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in history. It's a question of perspective: The further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.
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I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.
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I won't say I'm not fascinated by the way advertising works. I like the sleekness. But a picture in advertising doesn't last too long. They have to work for 30 seconds. And I'd like to reach at least two minutes. This is my goal: to break that two-minute record.
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I never talk about my work as a joke.
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When you place art in the shops, it's a way to make it more accessible.
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Made in Catteland is a project that aims to overcome the boundaries of the work of art as we're used to thinking of it: exploring new possibilities of reaching the audience through the creation of new forms of art.
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I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
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If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.
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Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the price tags on their work or becoming curators' darlings.
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