Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled limited edition porcelain plate in bespoke gift box, 2020

Maurizio Cattelan

Untitled limited edition porcelain plate in bespoke gift box, 2020

Silkscreen on Fine Bone China, held in specially designed gift box with artist's authorized signature

Signed in plate, Artist signature fired onto the back, Edition of 175

10 1/2 × 10 1/2 inches

Unframed

Publisher
Prospect, NY

Artist signature fired onto the back of the plate and on the bespoke box. The underside of the plate and box expressly states that it was produced in a limited edition of 175
Makes a superb gift.

Originally purchased to support the Coalition for the Homeless. The contemporaneous statement from the Coalition for the Homeless, New York:
In lieu of our 26th annual ARTWALK NY event in 2020, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coalition for the Homeless created Artist Plate Project to support our lifesaving work. The Coalition is honored to have worked with 50 world-renowned artists to create beautiful limited-edition dinner plates. The plates were produced by Prospect and available for purchase on Artware Editions from November 16 through December 31, 2020.

The innovative project was featured in the New York Times, T Magazine, Town and Country Magazine, and Architectural Digest, among other publications. Thirty-five galleries and individuals generously sponsored the project to help us cover the costs, and we sold more than 8,000 plates!

The sale of just one plate can feed 75 homeless and hungry New Yorkers.

About Maurizio Cattelan:
Maurizio Cattelan was born in Padua, Italy in 1960. Since the early 1990s Maurizio Cattelan has been internationally recognized for his humorous and ironic works which provoke and challenge the limits of contemporary value systems. In choosing symbols whose representations offer complex systems of intertwined meaning, Cattelan's work refuses to take a precise moral or ideological position. In 2011, just as his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened, Cattelan declared himself retired from the world of art. After a five year hiatus, Cattelan returned with a site-specific work installed at the same museum.

Cattelan's work has been exhibited widely, including, recently, at Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2023); UCCA, Beijing, China (2021); Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (2021); Blenheim Palace, UK (2019); La Monnaie de Paris, France (2016); Fondation Beyeler, Riehan, Switzerland (2013); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011); The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (2010); DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2010); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2008); and Tate Modern, London, England (2007).

He was a finalist for the Guggenheim Hugo Boss Prize in 2000. In 2004 he recieved an honorary degree in Sociology from the University of Trento, Italy, and in 2005 the Arnold-Bode prize from the Kunstverein Kassel, Germany. In 2009 he was awarded the Quadriennale di Roma Prize.

Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery