The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo by Jonathan Yeo

The controversy was only perpetuated as a Georgian 'performance artist' ate the artwork after it was purchased for US $120,000. First shown at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019, the ephemeral sculpture became a focal point for the 'what is art?' debate. Among notable works is La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour) (1999), depicting Pope John Paul II knocked over by a meteorite, and Him (2001), a child-like sculpture of Hitler on his knees, hands clasped in repentance.Ĭattelan's infamous banana sculpture Comedian (2019) is duct-taped on a nearby wall. Strewn with his characteristic humorous and cynical anecdotes, the exhibition reckons with our sense of being, how we become ourselves in the face of adversity, and how this leads to greater solidarity. Taxidermy animals, hyperrealistic sculptures, and a staggering wood replica of Vatican City's Sistine Chapel are among the 38 works featured in the artist's largest survey since his retrospective in 2011 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Crowds of young attendees waited in line to take the perfect shot. The controversial Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's first museum exhibition in South Korea was met with much excitement in the capital. Leeum Museum of Art, 60-16 Itaewon-ro 55-gilĮxpect: three decades of work from an art-world provocateur, including that banana-and-duct tape sculpture. Exhibition view: WE, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (31 January–16 July 2023). Maurizio Cattelan, Frank and Jamie (2002).

The Many Faces of Jonathan Yeo by Jonathan Yeo