| Maurizio Cattelan | Honorary Degree in Sociology | Trento, March 30th, 2004 |
 An exceptional event, the bestowal of an honorary degree in Sociology to Maurizio Cattelan by the University of Trento, is the occasion for the opening of one of the artist's new projects, specifically made for the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento (Italy). From March 31 to September 26, 2004, Maurizio Cattelan will be present at the Faculty of Sociology and will take possession of its main entrance with an ironical and disarming installation. By adding a new character to his well-known theatre of the absurd, Maurizio Cattelan continues his personal eulogy of folly, celebrated this time right in the heart of the most respected scientific community. A direct attack to the authority of education, but also a disarming portrait of the artist as a child, the installation of Maurizio Cattelan plays with the contradictory tradition of the local Faculty of Sociology, and draws back also to a centennial history of insubordination and mocking rites against professors. At the same time it is a tribute to popular wisdom and a snigger against the establishment; Maurizio Cattelan's sculpture depicts an inside-out world, carrying on his research as an artist in the look-out of new strategies to turn the world upside-down.
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| Born in Padua in 1960, after experiences which led him to perform the most disparate jobs, Cattelan begins to attract public and critics' attention at the beginning of the Nineties. Since then, the artist has shown in his work an interest for the social and political issues of our time, together with a deep and personal poetic sensitivity by transforming news into completely twisted icons and symbols. | |
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