Toiletpaper: Issue 14 [2017]

Toilet Paper: Issue 14 by Maurizio Cattelan [2017]

New
Paperback Magazine; 40 pages
Damiani
.8 pounds; 8.7 x 0.1 x 11.4 inches
978-8862084901

Toiletpaper is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. Number 14, powered by BMW, is the collection of pictures made for Zeit magazine. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts.

Since the first issue, in June 2010, ‘Toiletpaper’ has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.