Maurizio Cattelan: COSA NOSTRA at S|2 Sotheby’s and Venus Over Manhattan

h. nazan ışık—

7 November 2014—

Maurizo Cattelan is an Italian artist. His works are being exhibited at Venus Over Manhattan Gallery and at at S|2 Sotheby’s.

Let’s hear what Adam Lindemann, collector and gallerist and the curator of the show, says on curating Maurizo Cattelan: “ Humoruous, provocative, ironic, irrevelant and melancholy, the work of Maurizio Cattelan embodies perfectly the many contradictions of contemporary life. …” From the Sotheby’s Nov 2014 New York Auction Previev.

I would like to post some pictures that I took at the Sotheby’s S|2 exhibition.

Sotheby's reception

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Sotheby's reception 

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Ave Maria

“Ave Maria from 2007 is comprised of three uniformed arms extending bodiless from the wall in a fascist salute. Confronting issues of mass violence, power and conformity, Cattelan’s severed arms are hung on the wall as if a decorative element in a home. Instead of uniforms, the arms don everyday business suits, drawing an analogy between the everyday banality and conformity of office life and fascist Germany.” From the Gallery’s press kit

Sotheby's reception

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Him

“Throughout his career Cattelan has reveled in the interplay between good and evil, humor and irreverence. With the unnerving wax sculpture Him, the artist confronts us with the head of Adolf Hitler on the kneeling body of a twelve-year old boy, hands clasped, if not quite in prayer then in a gesture of obeisance unlikely in history’s most reviled leader.” From the Gallery’s press kit

Exhibitions:

Venus Over Manhattan Gallery 7 Nov – 20 Dec, 2014

S|2 Sotheby’s 30 Oct -26 Nov, 2014

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