BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE MODEM'S COVERS AUTHORS

89 2014 CONTEMPORARY ARTIST Modem Men’s Modem New York/LA Spring Summer 2015 Covers by MAURIZIO CATTELAN Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, 1960) is Italian famously irreverent contemporary artist, well-known by his satirical sculptures. His multi-faceted works reflect paradoxes and alienation in society, as well as the struggle of the individual person. He uses ironic distance as a guiding thre- ad of his practice must rely on flexibility, but never on predictable conclusions. Rather theatrical and ephemeral in his actions, objects, and installations, the artist spares no taboo in unmasking the deceitfulness of well-practiced social and art world conventions through his pictorial statements. Cattelan started his career in the beginning of 1980’s making wooden furniture in Italian Forlì. In the 1990s, he began to create sculptures that surprised and astonished the public and the art scene. Critical and humorous but always profound, Cattelan reflects a variety of themes. In 2010, Cattelan’s fascination for images brought him to team up with Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, in order to found the magazine TOILET PAPER - a bi-annual, picture-based publication. Somewhere in between softness and perversion, the issues of Toilet Paper explore basic concepts through a col- lection of strong images all made from scratch. Comforting and seductive and yet corrupted and sophisticated as Cattelan’s art is, Toilet Paper showcases a surreal and provocative representation of contemporary values and morals, intriguing the readers’ mind with their uncanny ambiguity. Cattelan’s works are part of some of the most important public and private collections worldwide, and featured into numerous significant group exhibitions and biennials.