Page from The Taste of Others
Maurizio Cattelan
Italian, born 1960
2011
A page from Maurizio Cattelan’s illustrated book that mixes offset-printed text and images with a single hand-painted gouache-and-ink image, using the book format to stage a wry, documentary-like scene of a gallery.
It reads like a magazine spread: dense German text at the top frames a small photographic rectangle stamped “GAGOSIAN GALLERY,” while below a soft, detailed gouache depicts a quiet gallery interior—display cases and a table of colorful objects—its domestic calm contrasted with the archival printed layout.
By presenting a printed page as art, Cattelan collapses reproduction and original and extends his institutional critique—turning gallery imagery and publication formats into tools for questioning authorship, the market, and how art is circulated.
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
225.2025.33
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