Maurizio Cattelan is the best-known Italian artist to have emerged internationally in the 1990s, and his reputation continues to grow. This mini second edition, updated to include all of the artists work to the present, represents a unique collaboration between Phaidon and this important artist. In fact, Cattelan, who often works with shifts in scale in his sculpture, conceived of this mini edition almost as a work of sculpture itself, creating a highly desirable and collectable object/catalogue. The artists uncompromising, often dangerous will to provoke his audience is exemplified in the notorious Frankie and Jamie(2002), an image of two wax-figure policemen leaning upside-down against a wall the artists own ambiguous commemoration of 9/11.
Francesco Bonami survey
Massimiliano Gioni update
Nancy Spector interview
Barbara Vanderlinden focus
Artists choice Philip Roth Or Not to Be
A Collection of Suicide Notes (ed. Marc Etkind)
Maurizio Cattelan writings