Accademia Nazionale di San Luca
TOILETPAPER (Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari - artistic duo since 2010)
Creative studio founded by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari in 2010, which explores the
overconsumption of images with irony, blending surrealism with commercial photography. Their
work, which includes creative direction for advertising campaigns, editorial projects, design
collaborations, and fashion collections, has been exhibited in shows worldwide, such as the High
Line in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Art Basel Miami, the Venice Biennale, Fondation
Beyeler in Basel, Les Rencontres D’Arles, Hyundai Card in Seoul, Villa Medici in Rome, and
NMACC in Mumbai
Spazio Taverna
Curatorial project founded in 2020 by Marco Bassan and Ludovico Pratesi, based on the
contamination between artists and other contemporary imaginaries, such as scientific and
industrial, works with institutions and companies like Fondazione CDP, MAECI, AXA, Colacem,
and Virgo. Spazio Taverna produces Experiences, where the distance between viewer, artwork,
and the artist's world is shortened to create transformative intimate moments, operating on an
individual level. It realizes exhibition projects to reinvigorate places, stories, and collective
identities thanks to contemporary art's ability to produce innovative narratives, such as the
Biennale di Gubbio (2023), the exhibition "Per Cecco!" (2024) at Forte Malatesta in Ascoli, and the
Crypta Balbi in Rome (2022).
TOILETPAPER
WET FRUIT, 2024
Floor film area: 60 square meters
Wall and furniture film area: 195 square meters
Pouf snakes from the "TOILETPAPER HOME" collection
The decision to invite TOILETPAPER stems from the desire to create an immersive work that
dialogically questions the solemnity of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, projecting it into the
present through a site-specific intervention capable of reinterpreting and recontextualizing some
of the works in the Academy's permanent collection.
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A curatorial project (Spazio Taverna) invites a creative studio (TOILETPAPER) with the intention of
presenting an imaginary that aims to broaden the contemporary definition of what artists are and
their relationship with history.
The environmental work is realized within the Sala dei Paesaggi, completely changing its
perception, transforming it into a stormy marine environment, where paintings and sculptures
seem to emerge from the waves, like survivors of a shipwreck.
In the center of the room, on either side of the Drinking Lion (1649-50), a terracotta study by Gian
Lorenzo Bernini for the Fountain of the Four Rivers, two seats made by TOILETPAPER are placed
to welcome visitors to the exhibition.
