Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan was born on September 21, 1960, in Padua, Italy. He holds Italian citizenship and worked in the Italian language throughout his career. His practice drew on a wide range of disciplines, encompassing photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and conceptual art.
Two works stand out among his documented output. L.O.V.E. is a sculptural piece that Cattelan created as part of his broader engagement with conceptual and installation art. Comedian is another work he produced, and like L.O.V.E., it sits within the genres of conceptual and installation art that defined much of his output. Together, the two pieces represent the range of forms he explored across his career as a sculptor, installation artist, and conceptual artist.
Among the formal recognitions Cattelan received is the Arnold-Bode-Preis. The facts available do not record a date or place of death, and no current role or location is confirmed, so the biography closes here on that concrete point of recognition: his receipt of the Arnold-Bode-Preis, an award that stands as part of the documented record of his career.
Quotes by Maurizio Cattelan
If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.
Made in Catteland is a project that aims to overcome the boundaries of the work of art as we're used to thinking of it: exploring new possibilities of reaching the audience through the creation of new forms of art.
I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.
Some do design in order to try to solve others' problems, while others make art in order to give others his problems.
Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.
Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.
You don't wanna see your work, because you might find out that you do not like it.