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.
- 2025: "Maurizio Cattelan: Sussurro", curated by Philippe Vergne, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (another edition exhibited)
- 2023 : “We”, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (another edition exhibited)
- 2021 : "The Last Judgment", UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (another version exhibited)
- 2019 : "Victory is Not an Option", Blenheim Palace, Oxford, United Kingdom (another version exhibited)
- 2018 : “The artist is present” (group show), Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
- “Maurizio Cattelan: Sussurro”, exh. cat., Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2025, p. 75-79
- “Maurizio Cattelan: Breath Ghosts Blind”, exh. cat. (July 15, 2021 - February 20, 2021), Fondazione Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 2021, p.63
- “Victory is Not an Option”, exh. cat. (September 12 - October 27, 2019), Blenheim Art Foundation, Oxford, UK, 2019, p. 92-97