Avant Arte has collaborated with the artist Maurizio Cattelan for a venture that may embrace a scavenger hunt for a brand new work.
On the core of the brand new venture is the sculptural self-portrait We Are The Revolution (2025), which references Joseph Beuys’s famed felt swimsuit. The Cattelan work is geared toward lampooning “the inflated self-importance of latest artwork whereas providing a honest reflection on the evolving position of the artist in society,” per Avant Arte.
“Should you by no means thought you’ll be capable of hold my effigy in your house, that makes two of us,” Cattelan stated in a press assertion.
The resin We Are The Revolution sculptures might be restricted to 1,000 editions, priced at €1,500 every (roughly $1,770 USD) and set to be launched by means of a randomized draw on Avant Arte’s web site. Entries for the drawing will shut on October 24.
The web artwork platform can also be launching the sale of the brand new work by means of a scavenger hunt in New York, Amsterdam, and London. Costs for the sculpture will vary from $0.99 to €9,999, relying on the placement, with the work showing in websites resembling market stalls, bodegas, and an antiques dealership.
The scavenger hunt comes after Cattelan’s Comic (2019), informally referred to as his “banana sculpture,” bought for $6.24 million at public sale final yr.
“Maurizio Cattelan’s work typically performs with how worth, shortage and need are constructed — this hunt invitations an viewers internationally to retrieve his sculpture editions from sudden places in three main cities, performing a few of these concepts in actual time,” Avant Arte CEO and cofounder Mazdak Sanii informed ARTnews in an electronic mail assertion. “We’re excited to carry a creatively concerned venture with one of the vital influential artists of our time to a brand new era of lovers and collectors.”
The scavenger hunt will happen from September 30 to October 7 by means of the discharge of two clues per location, with the hints to be provided on Avant Arte’s web site. The sculptures might be obtainable in bodily places in New York, whereas digital-only hunts might be provided in London and Amsterdam.
