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Toilet Paper Magazine, a Recent collaboration between artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrariis, is a “new generation” magazine that combines commercial photography, twisted narratives and surrealistic imaginary to create a series of powerful visual tableaux. Maurizio Cattelan, a strong and provocatory artist, is challenging again the limits of contemporary value system of which he is part. This time he teases the ambitious world of magazine publishers and serious art critics. He is not afraid to build a bridge between the commercial photography and art. The photographs visualize the ideas of the artist and are created in collaboration with a well known Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. In an interview for the Italian edition of Vogue Ferrari comments on the new magazine : “The magazine springs from a passion/ obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst.” via designboom and Toilet Paper Magazine

Maurizio Cattelan lives in Milan and New York. His works have long delighted and irritated viewers by their independent and uncompromising character. His play with art and its institutional nature has always provoked Cattelan to combine the work of the artist and that of the curator. In 2002 together with Ali Subotnick and Massimiliano Gioni he co-founded Wrong Gallery in New York: a shop window functioning as an art gallery. In 2006, together with the same team, he curated the Berlin Biennale. Maurizio Cattelan’s work was shown by the most important cultural institutions in the world: by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and Tate Modern in London. In 2000, the Polish audience had the opportunity to see Maurizio Cattelan’s famous work La Nona Ora in the Warsaw Zachęta National Gallery. The event in Poland became symbolic of the absurdity and ludicrousness of attempts to censor contemporary art. At the same time it proved to be a caesura, a type of catharsis and an element which brought together the Polish art community.

Pierpaolo Ferrari lives in Milan and New York. From 1994 he has been specializing in advertising photography. He photographed for such companies as: Nike, Audi, Mercedes, Samsung, Campari, and MTV. In 2006, together with Federico Pele, he created an art magazine Le Dictateur. For several years now, he has been doing fashion photography, among others for Uomo Vogue. In Poland, Pierpaolo Ferrari is known for the Doda photography session in Pani monthly and for Tilda Swinton’s photographs from the I Am Love film set.