Page from The Taste of Others
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian, born 1960
2011
A page from Maurizio Cattelan’s illustrated book produced as an offset print (with one hand-painted gouache and ink vignette), in which the artist uses the book-page format to make a single work that slyly mixes printed text and a small visual joke about display and context.
You first register the dense, magazine‑like columns of type surrounding a single, jewel‑bright painted doorway inset like a miniature window, all set within wide white margins and a small page number at the foot.
By treating a printed page as an artwork, Cattelan participates in a lineage of artist books and appropriation art that blurs reproduction and original, using everyday editorial formats to question museums, authorship, and how art is shown.
Medium
Offset print from an illustrated book of fifty-six offset prints and one hand-painted gouache and ink on paper
Dimensions
sheet (each): 16 13/16 × 12 13/16" (42.7 × 32.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Monroe Wheeler Fund
Accession
225.2025.24
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