Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen
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Maurizio
Cattelan
The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Museumpark 18-20, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. 010-4419471 or pressoffice@boijmans.rotterdam.nl
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Maurizio Cattelan
>From February 24th in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam on
Maurizio Cattelan gives a scathing commentary on the Old Art collection.
A figure crawling out of a hole in the floor - a look-alike of the
artist himself, slightly younger though. He is about to crawl out of a
hole in the floor of the classics gallery . He looks in a sharp way at a
painting of the 19th century master Koekoek. His hands rest in line on
the edge of the hole. A lucid lash at the established order in the most
literal sense of the word. The obvious solemn authority of the Old Art
is ironised in a subtle way. By this gesture the visitor is stimulated
to look in an innovative way at what is shown to him, in and outside the
museum. Cattelan's work can be seen in the museum's permanent setup for
the next few years.
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