The artwork world’s most mischievous japester, Maurizio Cattelan, confirmed his extra human facet in a current interview in The Guardian newspaper on the eve of a significant new present on the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
The Italian artist—identified for taping a banana to the wall (Comic, 2019)—harassed that he’s not only a provocateur, explaining: “My work has at all times been critical. The issue is folks usually cease on the joke.” Cattelan additionally addressed what occurs subsequent, mentioning in an arch philosophical means: “I don’t have a basis. I don’t have a studio, by no means had. I additionally don’t have a household. A legacy can be like being so aware about your self that you’ve these constructions.”
And what about his hyperlinks to Berlin? The Guardian revealed that in his early years within the metropolis, Maurizio was a postman, a mortuary attendant and a sperm donor—demise and life all rolled into one.
