Untitled | Maurizio CATTELAN (2018) | PERROTIN

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Maurizio
CATTELAN

Untitled, 2018

Acrylic paint based on Gesso Bologna with acrylic resin, blockboard spruce, Okumè marine plywood, electrical system and lights

376 x 830 x 333 cm | 148 1/16 x 326 3/4 x 131 1/8 inch

Edition of 3 + 2 AP

Courtesy Perrotin

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Cattelan’s "Untitled" is a miniature replica of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome, complete with copies of Michelangelo’s fifteenth-century ceiling frescoes and The Last Judgment behind a tiny altar. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes are among the bestknown images in Western art, emblematic of the grandeur and artistic pinnacle of the Italian Renaissance. Here a presentday Italian artist actively copies and shrinks the masterpiece, questioning the value we attach to ‘the original’. Cattelan suggests that the act of copying can in fact be an act of creation, making something new of something that already exists. 

 

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Maurizio CATTELAN  "Untitled", 2018
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