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| Permalink View Article Stats Maurizio Cattelan, by Jerry Saltz of Artnet Magazine Quicklink submitted by GLloyd Rowsey (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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I had imagined that Maurizio Cattelan's 'All' -- a retrospective that consists of nearly every work he's ever made, suspended via cables and a truss from the Guggenheim's ceiling -- would look like a total clusterfuck, a supernova sparked when Madame Tussauds crashed into a Calder factory and exploded. In fact, when I first saw these 128 sculptures, framed photos, paintings, stuffed horses, sleeping dogs, a sitting cow, a dead squirrel, mannequins, numerous self-portraits and assorted gewgaws, all floating in the atrium, my fan heart sank. It seemed sedate, sparse and anticlimactic, less clusterfuck and more inchoate limbo. {Pictured is Cattelan's central piece at the Guggeheim Museum.} |
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