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“
CARTE BLANCHE” TO
MAURIZIO CATTELAN
For this edition, which is dedicated to the Men’s Collection S S 2015, Modem
is giving “carte blanche”
to famously irreverent contemporary artist
Maurizio Catte-
lan
born in Padua, Italy, in 1960.
Back in the 1990s, he began to produce sculptures that surprised and astoni-
shed the public and the art scene. His multi-faceted works reflect paradoxes
and alienation in society, as well as the struggle of the individual person.
For
Cattelan
,
style means nothing more than a particular artistic attitude that
can be translated into different media, linguistic forms, and visual solutions.
An artist like him, who uses ironic distance as a guiding thread of his prac-
tice must rely on flexibility, but never on predictable conclusions. 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.
Critical and humorous but always profound,
Cattelan
reflects a variety of
themes. Rather theatrical and ephemeral in his actions, objects, and installa-
tions, the artist spares no taboo in unmasking the deceitfulness of well-prac-
ticed social and art world conventions through his pictorial statements.
Cattelan
’
s passion / obsession for images brought him to team up with Italian
photographer
Pierpaolo Ferrari,
in 2010, 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 collection of strong images all made from scratch. The messages
conveyed by the pictures are meant to tickle the public’s visual memory,
leaving open room to different narrative inventions and interpretation.
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.
The images on this edition’s cover and dividing sheets have been selected among the wide
range of Toilet Paper’s images, and thereby pay a tribute to the creativity of one of today’s
most-discussed artists.
For more information:
http://www.toiletpapermagazine.org/
http://mauriziocattelan.altervista.org/
Ezio Barbaro & Modem team thank their partners and wish a great season...