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Maurizio Cattelan is a contemporary Italian Conceptual artist. Known equally for his dark humor as for his realistic sculpture, he frequently depicts celebrities, art historical figures, or taxidermied animals in comically absurd scenes.

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This piece was seen at the Guggenheim Museum in 2012. Cattelan created his own display and most of his work was seen dangling from the ceilings of the Guggenheim Museum.

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian painter active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily from the early 1590s to 1610. Caravaggio is considered one of the fathers of modern painting.

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The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.

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Francesco Clemente was born in 1952 in Naples, into a family with aristocratic roots. After writing poetry and painting as a child, he went to Rome to study architecture at the Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, in 1970. Leaving school before completing the program, he focused instead on art.

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The Whitechapel Gallery is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

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Entering the provocative imagination of Pierpaolo Ferrari, the eccentric Italian photographer whose colorful surrealism is easy to spot and difficult to forget. Pierpaolo’s bold style pervades his spacious triplex studio in Milan where he lives, works, and plays.

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TOILETPAPER is a magazine by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, published by Damiani Editore.