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Cine and Sculpture: “Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back”// General Assembly

On Tuesday, February 18 at 6:30 p.m., we will have a new ICRE session on Cinema and Sculpture. The documentary Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back will be screened, a portrait of the controversial and provocative Italian artist, author of, among other works, "The Ninth Hour", a sculpture in which John Paul II is crushed by a meteorite. The documentary is in English with Spanish subtitles.

And then, at 8:15 p.m., on second call, the annual General Assembly of members will be held.

A telematic connection will be made for all those members who cannot attend in person.

IMPORTANT: Because the room has a limited capacity, there is a need to have some control over the number of attendees. To do this, you will need to confirm your attendance at socis@icre.cat. This activity is free for all members, as long as the confirmation is made in advance. If you do not, you will still be able to attend (although we cannot guarantee that there will be room for everyone) by paying 5 euros, the same amount as non-members who wish to attend.

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Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back

Direction: Maura Axelrod, 2016
Duration: 1h 31 min.
Audio: in English with Spanish subtitles
Synopsis:
Portrait of the controversial and provocative Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, author among other works of "The Ninth Hour", a sculpture in which John Paul II is crushed by a meteorite.
Maurizio Cattelan, an emerging artist, provocateur and elusive in the art world until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 consecrated his place in the canon of contemporary art. This playful documentary leaves no stone unturned in trying to answer one question: Who is Maurizio Cattelan?

Maurizio Cattelan (Padua, September 21, 1960)

Italian artist who lives in New York. He has created many of his most important works in the historic center of Milan on Viale Bligny, where he has lived for a long time. Cattelan creates realistic figures and stages strange, comical and provocative situations. Among his sensational installations are works such as La Nona Ora - The Ninth Hour (1999), a figure of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. In 2001 he designed Him (Praying Hitler), a small, innocent-looking, piously kneeling childlike figure of Adolf Hitler, which was auctioned in 2016 for a record price of 17.2 million dollars.
Together with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, he curated the fourth Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2006, entitled Von Mäusen und Menschen. The sculpture L.O.V.E. ("libertà, odio, vendetta, eternità", freedom, hatred, revenge, eternity') made of Carrara marble, also known as "il dito", was erected in front of the Milan Stock Exchange in 2010 and depicts an outstretched hand making the Roman salute, but with all fingers broken except the middle one, with which the sculpture makes the middle finger gesture, in what is a caricature of fascism. His installation America, a fully functional toilet bowl made of 18-carat gold, which the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum had built in an existing toilet in 2016 and which was stolen from an exhibition at Blenheim Palace in 2019, also made headlines. Its estimated value is €5.4 million.
Cattelan caused a stir with a banana stuck to the wall at the Art Basel art fair in Miami, which was eaten by action artist David Datuna. This only supports his artistic narrative style, says Cattelan [Wikipedia].

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