Blame the Guggenheim, not this idiot artist.
PIX– Forget porcelain thrones – an 18-karat gold toilet in a restroom at one of the city’s most notable art institutions is set to open this week.
The gold toilet is fully functional and will be open to the public in more than just a viewing capacity on the Guggenheim’s fourth floor.
“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,” according to the museum’s website.
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created the work, titled ‘America.’ He had announced his retirement in 2011, but came back to sculpt the gold toilet.
“Cattelan’s toilet offers a wink to the excesses of the art market but also evokes the American dream of opportunity for all—its utility ultimately reminding us of the inescapable physical realities of our shared humanity,” according to the museum’s website.
A guard will be posted outside the restroom, the New Yorker reported. Special wipes will be used to clean the gold toilet every 15 minutes.
Hey Maurizio Cattelan! I bet you’ll be applauding when muzzies turn the Vatican into a mosque, eh? F*ck off and die, bastardo!
Detroilet – representative of the graft and corruption inherent in democrat controlled metropolitan cities.
Stupid!
That kind of crap gives art a bad rep.
How about we have a picture of you painted and fired into an adjacent toilet bowl and see which one gets a higher deuce count?
For anybody who didn’t already know that the Modern Art industry is a farce, this should provide clarity.
Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
“…I lift my lamp beside the golden – …throne?”
😉
He sculpted a toilet? I guess Home Depot is now a cultural center. American Standard an artistic institution.
How fucking original!
How fucking cutting edge!
Take a dump on America!
Get in line behind Obola, Clinton, Sanders, Ryan, McConnell, Reid, Pelosi, …
izlamo delenda est …
One of 45 communist goals as entered into the
1963 congressional record.”Make art ugly and
repulsive with no meaning”.What is the draw
of human waste ???
I’d like to give this “artist” a good old fashioned swirly in his own piece of “art”.
Marcel Duchamp hardest hit.
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I’d rename “Fountain” “Italia”.
Laugh all you want, Mario, but the water in the American toilet is cleaner than that which most of the world drinks. And guess what, Mario, that ain’t America’s fault.
Hey Cattelan, why didn’t you go full hack and name it “Trump”? Didn’t think of that, did you? I guess you lose your edge when you retire.
Go ahead and laugh
The gold plate invokes the spirit of modern metallurgy, and freedom from the agricultural yoke of human existence.
The plumbing invokes images of clean, cholera and typhus free water, representing our struggle with the microscopic, therefor spiritual and unseen world.
The fact that it has been cleaned clearly invokes representational images of jealousy experienced by Italians for Americans for their ability to provide basic infrastructure to its people.
I’d rename it to “Obama’s throne” cuz everybody knows:
Ya gotta be a real Asshole to shit on America!
I named a urinal cake “Italy”. It is currently on display at my lodge’s men’s room in the urinal near the sink.
If Mario had real meatballs he would sculpt a toilet in Mudhomids image.
But alass…….
An metaphor for Italy’s contribution to NATO.
Your one funny fucker, Spaghetti.
I’d be willing to bet some spare change that the “sculpting” was actually gold plating.
I was recently in a home owned by a doctor. They had wonderful art.
None of it was modern nonsense.
The paintings were however, modern in production.
Seeing these paintings was a balm on the soul.
They were all beautiful, displaying technical expertise, and obvious love of craft.
The paintings did not try to make me think about anything, nor did any of them try to raise my awareness on poignant social injustices.
I was not remonstrated in the abstract for my imperialistic ways, nor was my systemic inherited racism and hetero-normative biases in any way referred to in allegorical parody or not, so I could experience chagrined embarrassment for being white on a visceral level.
These paintings were of beautiful things, painted by artists that appreciate beauty, and have the technical chops to achieve mastery.
Refreshing, to say the least.
If not for American blood, that ungrateful bastard would be speaking German.
Install one in a museum in India. They’re being toilet-shamed over there.
Yep, all you have to know about our culture is this farce. Now it is time to put on display at the MoMA, “Dogs Playing Poker” and let the chattering classes cry!
You have to look at it in a mirror, though. Right? Because America, the real America, means “plunking” gold bars into broken pickle jars. Not the other way around.
@Lazlo
So in other words you weren’t in Portland, Seattle or LA I guess?
I hope The vandals take the handle.(BD)
I’m thankful to live in a country where people own gold toilets.
Looks just like the pasta bowl
the “artists” momma cooked in.
Reminds me of a favorite joke
A man comes home late one night, drunk. “Where have you been?” asks his wife. “In the Golden Bar! They have golden chairs, golden glasses, golden beer, and a golden urinal!” This sounds awfully suspicious to the wife, who calls the Golden Bar. “Do you have golden chairs?” “Yes.” “Do you have golden glasses?” “Yes.” “Do you have golden beer?” “Yes.” “Do you have a golden urinal?” “Hold on.” On the other end, she hears “I think we have a line on the guy who pissed in your saxophone.”
He calls it America eh? I’ma go sit on dat ting and takea me a big Italy.