“At once seductive and disturbing, exuberant and sorrowful, Maurizio Cattelan's multifaceted practice chronicles the follies and paradoxes of contemporary society and the individual's struggle to find a place within it.” —Richard Armstrong
Provenance
Massimo De Carlo, Milan Private Collection, Switzerland Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 17 November 2006, lot 123 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Bremen, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Without Hesitation: The Olbricht Collection Part 2, 3 June - 16 September 2001, p. 2 (another example illustrated) New York, The Guggenheim, Maurizio Cattelan: All, 4 November 2011 - 22 January 2012 (another example exhibited)
galvanized metal, steel, plastic and rubber 110 x 240.3 x 56.2 cm (43 1/4 x 94 5/8 x 22 1/8 in.) Executed in 1997, this work is from a series of 3 unique variants.