Tourists

The second time Maurizio Cattelan was invited to represent Italy at the Venice Biennale, in 1997, he filled the galleries of the Italian Pavilion with stuffed pigeons, an installation he named Turisti. Curated by Germano Celant, the central theme of the Biennale was the mixing of the generations in Post-War Italian art. Cattelan, as one of the younger Italian artists, though one whose work in fact follows strongly in the tradition of modern Italian art, responded to this challenge in a typically

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