Page from The 11th Commandment
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian, born 1960
2024
A printed page from Maurizio Cattelan’s illustrated book that pairs interview text with a small hand-painted and offset-printed image to stage a wry, satirical reflection on contemporary morals and media.
The formal blocks of serif interview text and the centered title frame a compact, marbled gouache image—swirling gray skies mirrored in a liquid foreground and bisected by a mechanical ribbon of repeating zeros—that reads as both decorative and unsettlingly endless.
Working in the tradition of artist’s books and conceptual practice, Cattelan translates his irreverent, institution-questioning humor into the tactile, reproducible language of print and painting, extending sculptural and performative provocations into an intimate, widely shared object.
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)
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Department
Credit
Monroe Wheeler Fund
Accession
226.2025.11
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