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Golden Provocations: the irreverence of the Art Market
Throughout the twentieth century and beyond, the art market has witnessed the rising allure — and price — of works created to challenge the very foundations of the art system. Among the most famous provocations are Piero Manzoni’s Artist’s Shit (1961) and Maurizio Cattelan’s solid-gold toilet America (2016). Two iconic gestures, distant in time but united in intent: questioning what we define as “art” and exposing the sometimes absurd mechanisms of its market. Today something is changing...
Moodboard / Let's be kids again!
"There is always some old lady who stares at a kid making scary faces and saying stupid things in informal language: ciccì, coccò and piciupaciù. Usually the children look very sternly at these people who have grown old in vain; they don't understand what they want and go back to their games, simple and very serious games." - Bruno Munari
