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TOILETPAPER No. 1 (Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, June 2010).
4to. Wrps., 40pp. Ed. Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Art direction by Micol Talso. Special Edition cover (there were two variants: this one, featuring a nun shooting up, and the standard issue, depicting a woman’s face pressed against a man’s with an eyeball in his mouth).
An experimental photo-based glossy magazine co-founded by hyperrealist artist/curator/prankster Maurizio Cattelan and fashion photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. Presenting more like a limited edition art book than magazine, it features 25 full-colour illustrations, with no text and no ads. Cattelan reportedly came up with the title while in the bathroom, on the basis that “sooner or later all magazines end up in the toilet.”
Contributors include Jacopo Emiliani, Alberto Zanetti, Elisabetta Claudio, Federico Albertini, Andrea Mineo, and Pierpaolo Ferrari who, in an interview with Vogue Italia, explained: “The magazine [is derived] from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst.”
In 2012, one of the book’s images, depicting seemingly disembodied female fingers, was displayed on an enormous billboard next to the High Line at West 18th Street and 10th Avenue in New York City.
Original price sticker to back cover. Very small crease to lower edge of lower wrapper, with associated short and unobtrusive indentation affecting last few pages, o/w Fine. Rare and long out-of-print.
Price:
£450.00
