The work is designed to symbolize "excess art-рынка"

He brought down a meteorite on the Pope, turned wife of the customer in a hunting trophy, made a hole in the floor in the Museum of the old masters, showed a giant middle finger stock exchange in Milan. But it seemed to him a little. His last adventure will be the toilet bowl 18-каратного gold, which would set a new-йоркском the Guggenheim Museum.

Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan decided to get back into action. In 2011, he stated that decided to leave the sculpture, to "break out of the system, which inclines him to repeat himself."

the Director of the Guggenheim Museum enthusiastically reacted to the idea of Cattelan about the Golden toilet. The idea is certainly not new (allusions to the "Fountain" of Marcel Duchamp or the work of conceptualist Piero Manzoni's "artist Shit" is obvious), but Maurizio Cattelan is in his plans even further: the Golden bowl should not stand in the halls of the Museum, and in a series of similar, but more modest earthenware counterparts and should be used by visitors for its intended purpose.

In a press-релизе Guggenheim Museum, a work by Maurizio Cattelan called "America", is meant to symbolize the artist's reaction to the "excesses of the art-рынка". This Golden bowl — mockery of the 1% of rich people spending millions on such pretentious things (remember the diamond skull by Damien Hirst).

About how to react to the Golden bowl the visitors of the Guggenheim Museum — will perceive it as a joke or feel the depth of creative idea, — can only guess. In the coveted booth with unique art-объектом, which will run 4 may be assumed to be the queue. At the entrance put up protection to prevent particularly keen art lovers to saw off a piece on memory.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artnet.com, nytimes.com, forbes.com, artinvestment.ru