In 1999 Maurizio Cattelan had himself duct tape for a public pressentation of himself fixed to a Milan gallery wall by duct tape, which was listed for sale at $1,905,000.00 HKD*.
Embodying the very real struggle to remain vertical this Monday morning is Maurizio Cattelan‘s gallerist Massimo De Carlo, gaffer-taped to the wall of his own Milan gallery for the opening night of the controversial Italian artist’s 1999 exhibition, A Perfect Day. Fortunately for De Carlo, the performance—described by Galerie Perrotin as a sort of “grotesque but not less striking crucifixion” was a one-off event; while fortunately for everyone else, it was captured on vieo for posterity.
Phillips auction House offered electrostatic print on aluminum prints signed by the artist for $150,000 to $200,000
The suspended man is not the artist.
He appears so relaxed.
Then again "If you can't fix a problem with duct tape, then you have used enough duct tape." - Anon
Maurizio has come a long way since the 20th Century. In 2019 he duct taped a banana to a wall, shown at Art Basel Miami. The edible part was eaten by the Georgian artist David Datuna (1974-2022) in a performance art piece called Hungry Artist according to Wikipedia. One of the three sold for $6.2 million. Probably a ruse. Ha ha.
