Maurizio Cattelan - Finestre sull'Arte

10 questions and answers to understand Cattelan's Comedian: why a banana is a work of art

Fortissimo is the uproar aroused these days by Comedian, the work by Maurizio Cattelan initially presented in 2019 at Art Basel Miami at the booth of Perrotin, Cattelan's gallerist: the work was in fact sold at auction by Sotheby 's in New York for t...
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Maurizio Cattelan's banana sold for more than $6 million

It sold for an incredible $6,240,000 Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan's famous work, the banana attached to the wall with packing tape. It was sold tonight in New York at auction at Sotheby's, which had estimated $1-1.5 million for "the banana that broke ...
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Unbelievable. Cattelan's banana up for auction for $1 million

$1 million for Cattelan's banana. Comedian, the celebrated banana taped to the wall, a 2019 work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, Italy, 1960) will indeed go to auction at Sotheby's, with an estimate of $1 to $1.5 million. It will be the highlight of the...
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Cattelan's new work reflects on the ease of access to guns in the U.S.

It has been a while since Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) has exhibited in the United States and in a commercial gallery: the last time was in 2014 in New York, with the exhibition Cosa Nostra at Venus Over Manattan. Now, ten years after his last sol...
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Bologna, Maurizio Cattelan's intervention at Arte Fiera unveiled. Here's what his Because looks like.

Maurizio Cattelan 's (Padua, 1960) intervention as part of Arte Fiera in Bologna has finally been unveiled to the public. There was much anticipation after the announcement of the work that Cattelan would bring to Bologna in the 50th anniversary edit...
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1974-2024: in Bologna, Arte Fiera turns 50, several events scheduled

The Arte Fiera art fair complex in Bologna scheduled for Feb. 2 to 4 is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It was 1974 when BolognaFiere decided within its Fiera Campionaria event, to present a small section dedicated to modern and contempor...
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Milan, will go to trial the three activists who daubed L.O.V.E., Cattelan's finger

A preliminary hearing was held in Milan on Jan. 17 for the vandalism against the work L.O.V.E by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960), the famous middle finger in Milan's Piazza Affari, which was daubed on Jan. 15 last year by three activists from the env...
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Cremona, Maurizio Cattelan's crocodile returns to the Baptistery

Maurizio Cattelan'scrocodile , or the work entitled Ego , which had already been exhibited in the same venue for the first edition of Cremona Contemporanea, the Cremona Art Week, promoted by the Cremona Department of Culture and curated by Rossella ...
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