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Description: B. 1960
ANDREAS E MATTIA

dimensions variable

stuffed cloth figure, clothes and shoes

Executed in 1996.

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, Italy
Galerie Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Zwirner & Wirth, New York

EXHIBITED

Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Campo 6: il Villaggio a Spirale, 1996

LITERATURE

Exh. Cat., Centre d'Art contemporain de Brétigny-sur-Orge, Maurizio Cattelan, December 1997 - February 1998, p. 85, illustrated in color
Giorgio Verzotti, Maurizio Cattelan, Milan, 1999, p. 42, illustrated in color
Francesco Bonami, Nancy Spector & Barbara Vanderlinden, Maurizio Cattelan, London, 2000, p. 48, illustrated in color

NOTE

"Walking around the city -- by 1990 he had moved to Milan -- was part of his 'fieldwork'. He would focus on small acts of survival in this metropolitan context, finding them as intense as many artworks. A homeless man who washed his clothes and dried them on a tree in the middle of the winter, for example, provided an image strong enough to generate a hypothetical art piece, later to evolve into actual works such as Andreas e Mattia (1996)... During this period Cattelan was reflecting not only upon the role of the artist but on other social roles: on another he followed a vagrant through the streets of the city in order to understand all of his movements and needs within the urban landscape -- identifying with his emancipated condition." (Francesco Bonami, Maurizio Cattelan, London, 2000)