Italian artist Maurizio
Cattelan is back at work after four years in retirement, this
time with a solid-gold toilet to be installed on one of the
ramps leading to Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum in May.
The New York Times interviewed Cattelan on the project,
calling it "a preposterously scatological apotheosis of wealth
whose form is completed in its function".
"You could go into the restroom just to bask in its glow,
but it becomes an artwork only with someone sitting on it or
standing over it, answering nature's call," Cattelan said.
The sculpture can also be seen as a reference to the photo
magazine Cattelan founded in 2010 with Pierpaolo Ferrari, called
Toilet Paper.
Cattelan will be featured on April 24 at the Tribeca Film
Festival with the screening of a film dedicated to his career,
prophetically titled "Be Right Back".
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