Artist field note

Maurizio Cattelan

The joke that keeps getting worse.

La Nona Ora by Maurizio Cattelan
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La Nona Ora

1999

A meteorite strikes a wax Pope. Authority is made suddenly vulnerable and absurd.

The five in one idea

Cattelan uses comedy to get the viewer close enough for discomfort to take over.