Artist: Maurizio Cattelan
Title: America
Year: 2016
Exhibition at: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

“[…] For “America” Cattelan replaced the toilet in this restroom with a fully functional replica cast in 18-karat gold, making available to the public an extravagant luxury product seemingly intended for the 1 percent. Its participatory nature, in which viewers are invited to make use of the fixture individually and privately, allows for an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art…”
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