Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Maurizio Cattelan

La Nona Ora (1999)
Ora’ consists of an effigy of Pope John Paul II in full ceremonial dress being crushed by a meteor and is a good example of his typically humorous approach to work. He thinks La Nona Ora as a sculpture that doesn’t exist: a three-dimensional image that dissolves into pure communication – an object disappearing in the flux of information, news, comments, headlines, reproductions, newspapers and other seductive spectacles. On the other hand, La Nona Ora could simply be a bad joke taken too seriously, an exercise in absurdity. 

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