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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Memes about Comedian, Cattelan's banana: the funniest ones

In December 2019, the contemporary art world was shocked by news that went around the globe: a seemingly simple work of art, a banana taped to a wall, was being presented at Art Basel Miami. The author of this artistic provocation was Maurizio Cattel...
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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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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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Maurizio Cattelan returns to Milan with an exhibition on the cycle of life, featuring three major new works

Opening to the public from July 15, 2021 to February 20, 2022, is Breath Ghosts Blind, the solo exhibition of Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) scheduled at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, curated by Vicente Todolí and Roberta Tenconi. Cattelan,...
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Rome, Martin Parr and Maurizio Cattelan together for the first time in iconic photo exhibition

From July 2 to October 31, 2021, theAcademy of France in Rome - Villa Medici welcomes the VillaToilet MartinMedici PaperParr exhibition. This one, under the artistic direction of Sam Stourdzé and Cookies (Alice Grégoire and Cléme...
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