Page from The 11th Commandment
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian, born 1960
2024
A printed page from Maurizio Cattelan’s illustrated book, made as an offset print on paper that pairs interview-style text with a reproduced interior image to mount a witty, provocative inquiry into art, authorship, and museum display.
A jarring expletive heads dense, formally set text above a small, lavish image of a red, portrait-lined gallery—its genteel order disrupted by a life-size horse hanging awkwardly in the room, producing an unsettling, comic collision of decorum and prank.
By presenting a book page as an artwork, Cattelan extends conceptual traditions that use reproduction, satire, and shock to expose and question the authority of institutions, images, and the narratives that sustain them.
Medium
Offset print from an illustrated book of thirty-three offset prints and one hand-painted gouache and ink on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 16 3/4 × 12 13/16" (42.6 × 32.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Monroe Wheeler Fund
Accession
226.2025.5
Palette
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