Brothers | Maurizio CATTELAN (2025)

Maurizio
CATTELAN

Brothers, 2025

Steel, electric motors, electronic components, acrylic, bell, composite board, plasterboard

Dimensions extérieures de l’œuvre | External dimensions of the artwork : 17.5 x 29 x 0.8 cm | 6 7/8 x 11 7/16 x 0 5/16 inch
Dimensions du mécanisme | Dimensions of the mechanism : 15 x 42.7 x 26 cm | 5 7/8 x 16 13/16 x 10 1/4 inch
Dimensions de la plaque de plâtre | Plasterboard dimensions : 36 x 63 x 6 cm | 14 3/16 x 24 13/16 x 2 3/8 inch

unique version from a series of 12

Courtesy Perrotin

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photograph : Hwang Jung Wook

Exhibiting a coruscating and curiously subversive wit, this Maurizio Cattelan’s work is a consummate example of the artist’s perpetually inventive and relentlessly incisive examination into the surreal subterranean current lurking beneath the banality of daily life. Inverting perceptions of scale and reality, Cattelan’s miniature elevator doors appear fully operational with his signature, wryly precise attention to detail. The gleaming industrial doors open and close as the number boards above the sliding doors expectedly light up and change floors to suggest the fictional ascent and descent of the lift through invisible stories behind the wall.

Appropriating the illusionary quality of a fairytale through the decisively adult visual vocabulary of a humdrum office reality, Cattelan’s work spins a world tangled in reason, logic, and rationality through the exhilarating potential of magic.

Exhibitions :
2026 : "10 YEARS", Perrotin Seoul, South Korea
2025 : "Portofranco", Palazzo Soranzo Novello, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy (another version exhibited)

Vue de l'exposition à "Portofranco" au Palazzo Soranzo Novello, Castelfranco Veneto (Italie), 2025 (une autre version exposée)