If a Tree Falls in the Forest and There Is No One Around It, Does It Make A Sound ? | Maurizio CATTELAN (1998) | PERROTIN

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Maurizio CATTELAN

If a Tree Falls in the Forest and There Is No One Around It, Does It Make A Sound ?, 1998

Taxidermized donkey, television, rope, blanket

150 x 154 x 46 cm | 59 1/16 x 60 5/8 x 18 1/8 inch

Unique

Courtesy Perrotin

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In this work, Cattelan alters a traditional image from Christian iconography by having a donkey carrying a television set on his back instead of Christ with palm fronds; the Saviour has been replaced by the instrument of the mass media.

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