Submitted by Roger:
Mister Wrong
by Carl Swanson
NY Magazine
October 23, 2011:
After he”s done dangling his oeuvre from the Guggenheim”s atrium, Maurizio Cattelan plans to retire from the art world. It”ll be like being dead””or resurrected.
Maurizio Cattelan”s first show in New York, in 1994, consisted of a self-portrait in the form of a live donkey wandering around a gallery under a chandelier, braying inconsolably. That show wasn”t up long””there were noise complaints””but even now, when his always-wry sculptures sell for millions and his unbelievably elaborate full-rotunda Guggenheim retrospective is about to open, he retains that same posture of self-suspicion. “Today I would say I don”t know how I arrived at this point,” he says, sitting on a bench near a playground on West 28th Street, not far from the West Chelsea galleries, cocking a knowing eyebrow at a sudden whiff of marijuana in the air.* “I don”t know how I arrived at this point, at the Guggenheim. There must be something wrong somewhere.”
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Maurizio Cattelan The Last Word Seven-Hour Finale
Saturday, January 21, 6 pm, to Sunday, January 22, 1 am
in the Peter B. Lewis Theatre
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Ave at 89th St
New York City
guggenheim.org/publicprograms
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