Maybe face death,
Laughing is an instinct.
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Remember this banana?
Two years ago, Art Basel was so overwhelmed by its containment that it was eventually auctioned by mystery buyers for $150,000, causing a sensation around the world.
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Some say it's a farce, some say it means a lot.
After Andy Warhol, few people can play art so "transparently".
As a "player" in the art world, he once compared the 18K gold toilet to "the United States" and created sensitive sculptures pointing directly to the White House;
It also smashed meteorites at the pope to sensationalize Poland, scaring local legislators into several attempts to lift the statue to preserve the dignity of the pope.
He claims that he is not an artist, but that the works of art created by his hands are worth more than 100 million;
"I never talk about my work as a joke," he says, but every picture of him is inevitably caught up in his own poisonous tongue.
These humors, which were spat out by the audience as "no nutrition", laid the foundation for his status as a "master" in the global art world.
He is an Italian national treasure artist, Moregio Cattelan.
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Art rebel
Born of "death"
If you were to give Cattelan a job resume before he actually became an artist, you'd find that it was a hugely rich and quirky list.
Cooks, gardeners, nurses, carpenters, and even the mourners responsible for the care of bodies in morgues are all involved.
Born in a small town in northern Italy, Maurizio had an anachronistic childhood.
His father earned a meager salary as a truck driver, and his mother, who worked as a maid for the upper class, was bedridden for most of his childhood, and the problem of survival overwhelmed the family.
To support his family, he dropped out of high school and worked odd jobs at post offices, restaurants, and funeral parlors.
When he came close to the corpses, he felt that they were so quiet and distant.
Fate did not take care of the family, and his mother finally died when he was twenty years old.
Growing up, he began to wonder about "death," "I was amazed that people laugh when they saw my work. Perhaps in the face of death, laughing is an instinct. ”
An artistic rebel, born out of "death".
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His popularity was not an accident
As an artist who had never been professionally trained, Maurizio was a "self-made man".
His early years at work in the morgue made him miserable, so he paid a doctor to write a 6-month note, but he did not think about his future.
Once, on his way to work at the hospital, Moriggio saw a self-portrait of Michelangelo in a gallery through the window, and he became interested and went into the gallery to ask the clerk about the work.
When Hai Nei knew him, the clerk was pleased and gave him some books related to art.
Five years later, he created his first work. Moriggio later recalled in an interview: "Those books changed my life.
In his twenties, fascinated by the status that artists brought, he decided to move to San Diego-New York in the art world.
The streets of New York at that time were full of talent, and any sign that fell down could hit several artists.
Art left people hungry, and in the hardest times, he lived on five dollars a day.
After struggling like this for a while, the opportunity finally came to the door, making it a terrifying moment in art history.
In 1999, Maurizio searched for many years and finally got the opportunity to exhibit at the Milan Gallery.
The artwork he brought with him that day was a man with a taped body.
For two full hours, it was like a strange, desecrated cross. More and more tourists gathered, and even poured out of the gallery gate.
Perhaps because the time was too long, or perhaps the lights and eyes in the gallery were too hot, the protagonist fainted and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
A "performance art" that unexpectedly provided the headlines of the day for free for major art newspapers and periodicals, and also unexpectedly became popular. This is a bit of a laugh-out-loud thing.
But the public gradually realized that Moriggio's popularity was not an accident.
Those protests and reactions to authority and evil are the context of most of his sculptures.
"The Ninth Hour", which caused an uproar in the art world that year, can be described as a successful case of the double harvest of eyeballs and gimmicks in his art list.
Interestingly, the day before the work was exhibited, Moriggio didn't even think about what kind of gesture the pope should take to meet the audience.
He was so anxious that he simply spent the night in the museum, trying to come up with another option.
After a few minutes of sleeping with his eyes closed, he suddenly jumped up and woke up his companion: "We must break our legs, we must break the pope's legs!" "He was incredibly excited.
There are no taboos, the work was completed, and it was sold for 3 million US dollars on the day of the exhibition.
This humanoid sculpture, which is one-to-one size with a real person, is based on the Pope, Paul II, who is believed to be God by the Polish christians.
The broken glass on the ground simulates the scene of a meteorite passing through the glass, and the pope in power falls on the altar.
Those who dared to challenge the authority of the Polish sect in this way were the first to do so.
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After flirting with the pope, he was even more bold in ridiculing Trump.
In 2016, an 18k gold toilet called "America" was stolen in the Guggenheim Museum toilet, and its author was Moriggio.
He placed the toilet in the restroom of the museum for the audience to use, and the curator also ridiculed the former US President Trump.
Sure enough, the news made headlines, and punch-in tourists blocked the venue.
It is said that the White House later wanted to borrow Van Gogh's masterpiece to decorate, but was told that this golden toilet was suitable for Trump's taste.
Here in Maurizio, ideas can be born in just 5 minutes.
The statue of Hitler, once sold for £12 million at an auction house, caused a sensation in the art world.
If you go to the scene, you will find that this surreal work is very strangely placed.
Statues are always arranged at the end of a room or a corridor, so the viewer must go around to the front to see that it is Hitler kneeling on the ground.
Evil can also be very religious.
Hitler, who fell on his knees, was like a cry for help who had escaped from the ground and was asked for forgiveness... They are like a mirror that reminds everyone of names and memories that he does not dare to mention, and as if he has become a form of fear that has evolved into a taboo.
His work is always disturbing. As the famous artist Kasanjian said, "There's something about Morisino that's just under your skin." ”
Horses thrown away, dying squirrels and headless chickens... These horrific works that reached the adrenaline glands made people feel that this had certainly reached the peak of his "spoof".
Until, he hung three hanging children from a tree in the center of Milan.
The only thing that can be predicted in this work is the expression of passers-by.
Later, a man was disturbed by the hanging boys, and finally decided to climb up the tree, cut two of the ropes, and fell from the tree himself, breaking several ribs.
Such bizarre and funny "cases" happen frequently here in Morizio.
When he was hosting an exhibition at the Amsterdam Art Center in 1996, he stole all the works of the artist next door because he couldn't think of any work to exhibit on the exhibition, trying to package it into his own "readymade" exhibition.
After the police finally threatened to throw him into prison as a Mediterranean, Morizio was able to calm down.
His creative approach looks even rough. In Untitled, he imitates his predecessor Lucio cutting the canvas and hand-cutting out a letter "Z".
And frantically copying avatars, playing some enlargement and reduction tricks, just to tell the audience that the original art can be moved, copied, and transferred.
This is the "originality" of art that an artist began to face up to, and this is precisely the "deceptiveness" circulating in the times, which is also the reason why Moriggio was able to cause a sensation around the world.
But in 2001, the famed artist suddenly announced early retirement to the world, taking several Italian colleagues to start a surreal magazine.
Art is reduced to "anomaly" in his place. He also got a bad name for himself as an art clown.
He's like a crazy court clown who dares to say to everything serious, "Die far away!" ”
He rebelled against authority and was more sarcastic about "originality". He's known for his mischief, but his jokes expose ourselves.
He liberated art and had self-doubt, which gave him the opportunity to declare to the world: I am not an artist.
Beneath the violent surface of Moriggio's work, "beauty" no longer means sublime and perfect, but sorrow, disgust, fear, mutilation, and failure.
Fate is like that skinny horse suspended in the air. What seems to be a tragedy of human hunting is actually the result of the gradual intensification of the deep contradictions within class and power.
They are both real and illusory, straightforward and complex, one moment they get your feet off the ground, the next they drag you back to reality.
This is a reality and a parable.
When he was idle, Maurizio often rode his bicycle to visit unknown streets, meet friends, give interviews, follow strangers while riding, and speculate on other people's stories from a distance.
For his first solo exhibition in Bologna, he placed a "Torno Subito" sign in front of the gallery and rode on his bike.
Such escape dramas have been staged many times in his artistic career, making it a natural mystery in itself.
Once maurizio was asked what the reason for doing so was, and his answer was simple: the best art is on the street.
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Lone Wolf is also
Born in the art world, Maurizio is an exception.
He called on everyone to build cemeteries and bury those who were still alive.
Unexpectedly, many artists have chosen to bury Moriggio.
Everyone was scolding him for his incitement, but he said:
"I actually think reality is far more inflammatory than my art. You should go to the streets to see the real beggars, not my fake beggars. You should go see a real skinhead rally. I just borrow, I always borrow something from everyday life. ”
"If you think my work is very inflammatory, it means that reality is very inflammatory, and we just didn't react to it. Maybe it's that we're no longer paying attention to the way we live in this world, we're getting 'not feeling any pain' and we're being anesthetized. ”
Art is sought after, and who has thought about the real meaning behind it?
The "sugar-coated cannonballs" made by the artist himself are compassion, reflection, and wisdom.
This article is derived from the People's Art art