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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Maurizio Cattelan: Breath, Ghosts, Blind

June 15, 2021 – Feb 20, 2022
Via Chiese, 2, 20126 Milano MI, Italy

Maurizio Cattelan is known for his irreverence. Author of “The Single Post Instagram” and the man behind the taped banana that famously sold for $120,000 at Miami Art Basel, he is one of the world’s most controversial artists. In 2011, at the 54th Venice Biennale, he arranged 2,000 taxidermy pigeons near the ceiling of the Italian pavilion. In 2016, he replaced a public toilet at the Guggenheim with a fully-functional replica in 18-karat gold, available for use and cheekily titled America. For his first solo exhibition in Milan since 2010, Cattelan tackles existential themes of fragility, memory, and loss in a site-specific installation. —E.C.

Maurizio Cattelan, “Love Saves Life,” 1995. Photo: Roman Mensing.