Artist Maurizio Cattelan's newest installation, 'Sunday,' is on display at the Gagosian gallery. The artwork is a massive wall of gold-panels, scarred by 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
The first thing that strikes you, arriving in the gallery that houses artist Maurizio Cattelan’s latest satirical work, is the gleam. The brilliant gleam of 64 panels coated with 24-karat gold — in all, a glittering wall 17 feet tall and 68 feet wide. The second is the pockmarks on all that gold, created by more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition fired from six different weapons. But the third impression is probably the most arresting: Up close, you can see yourself reflected in the gold.
Wealth and luxury in America, pierced by the agony of gun violence. That's the explanation most visitors take away from Cattelan's solo show, the first in more than two decades by a conceptual artist famous for a series of similarly eyebrow-raising works. They include: A simple banana affixed to a wall with duct tape that stole the show at Art Basel in Miami ; a functioning toilet made of gold ; and an effigy of the pope being felled by a meteorite.
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