Maurizio Cattelan La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour) 1999.
Cattelan's La Nona Ora is representative of his satirical sculptural style. His artist practice is made up of contradictory ideas, famously of confrontation and avoidance. Cattelan works in a number of media, not limiting his work and ideas to sculpture and installation. Because of this, a lot of his ideas and projects tend to be more on the collaborative side, and he works with a very wide variety of artists, craftsmen, designers, curators, and writers. Below is a link to an art blog that also has a protion of an interview with Cattelan about the piece and the reaction to it, as well as some insight into his own art practice.
http://farticulate.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/la-nona-ora-the-ninth-hour-1999/
Cattelan's La Nona Ora is representative of his satirical sculptural style. His artist practice is made up of contradictory ideas, famously of confrontation and avoidance. Cattelan works in a number of media, not limiting his work and ideas to sculpture and installation. Because of this, a lot of his ideas and projects tend to be more on the collaborative side, and he works with a very wide variety of artists, craftsmen, designers, curators, and writers. Below is a link to an art blog that also has a protion of an interview with Cattelan about the piece and the reaction to it, as well as some insight into his own art practice.
http://farticulate.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/la-nona-ora-the-ninth-hour-1999/