Town Mouse
Come and gone
Author: CP
Come and gone
AFTER bananas came ‘Bones’. Not of the skeleton kind (although there is one, Deaf, trapped in a bottle, skull covered by a balaclava). Instead, in his exhibition at the Gagosian gallery in Mayfair, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (of taped-banana fame) is showing a series of panels plated in 24-carat gold—and shot through with a large-calibre gun. Intended as metaphors for creation and transformation, they struck me more as a study on transience: they mirror life passing by, bathing it in gold ...