A provocative artists' graveyard: here is Eternity, Cattelan's new work. Photographs

A new work by Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960), Eternity, which the public can admire in the gardens of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, was officially opened on Monday, April 23, 2018. It is a project related to funeral rituals, created in collaboration with students of the Academy. “Artists,” Cattelan himself explained in an exclusive interview we published yesterday, “often have a relationship of closeness and fascination with death. I think it’s one of the drives to make art, the overcoming of that mortal limit. It’s a classic theme of art, and that’s why I think it’s interesting for young artists to confront it.”

We took some photos at Eternity. It is a provocative graveyard of artists. There are the greats: from Caravaggio to Klimt, Manzoni to Beuys, Magritte to Burri. There are the faculty and students of the Carrara Academy. And of course there is also Maurizio Cattelan’s desecrating tomb (in fact, there are more than one). We show you some photographs.

Eternity, the new work by Maurizio Cattelan.

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