News about Maurizio Cattelan

The celebrated Birth of Venus by Botticelli is criticized by climate activists in Florence: At the Uffizi museum in Florence, protesters stick photographs of flooded towns on glass protectors before being led to a police station

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 13, 2024
The campaign group said in a tweet that two activists from Last Generation shared photos of a flooded Tuscan town protesting the goddess' huge shell on the 15th-century art work before being led to a police station. 'The government continues to insist that fields did not burn in January, that water will not be a problem this summer,' said Giordano, one of the protesters, and that floods are accidental events not caused by human choices.' 'And rather than dealing with these real problems, it makes absurd laws' punishing climate activism,' he said. Following a string of climate protests, Italy's parliament passed a bill in January increasing fines for people who damage monuments and cultural sites.

THAT'S how you stop eco protesters! Vandals, a climate campaigner, have been fined £50,000 in Italy

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 19, 2024
Climate activists in the European nation have targeted a number of well-known monuments in recent years. It came after a judge convicted three members of Italy's Ultima Generazione (Last Generation, or UG) environment activist group, Laura Aguila on Wednesday. This was after they sprayed orange removable paint over Maurizio Cattelan's L.O.V.E., a sculpture in Milan on a hand with its middle finger raised last year. The law was designed to prevent such demonstrations from happening, giving officials the ability to levy fines ranging from 20,000 euros (£17,000) to 60,000 euros (£50,000).

Four men have been charged with stealing a gold toilet from Blenheim Palace four years ago after the £4.8 million art work was destroyed in a overnight attack at Churchill's birthplace

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 6, 2023
Four men have been charged with stealing a £4.8 million 18-carat solid gold toilet loo looted in a four-year investigation into Blenheim Palace. The toilet, which was created as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, vanished from the stately home on September 14 2019, just a day after it had been announced. Despite police making seven arrests over the years, no one had been formally charged in connection with the robbery before today.

As the CPS investigates charges against seven suspects, there's a breakthrough in the hunt for a gang that took a solid gold toilet in a raid on Blenheim Palace

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 29, 2023
The 18-carat gold toilet, created as part of an exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was confiscated in a raid at the stately Oxfordshire home on September 14, 2019 - just a day after it had been announced. And, with four years of silence and police detaining seven suspects in that period, no one has been charged in connection with the robbery.

By a museum visitor, Banana artwork taped to a wall is EATEN

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 1, 2023
The work, by Maurizio Cattelan, and part of his show WE, a ripe banana taped to a wall at Seoul's Leeum Musuem of Art, was a ripe banana taped to a wall. After consuming the banana, Noh Huyn-soo taped the peel to the wall. A new banana was planted in the empty spot, according to local reports. The banana must be replaced every two to three days, according to the museum.