Maurizio Cattelan, a prominent figure in contemporary art, and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari have teamed up with Seletti to create a unique capsule collection that is provocative, funny, absurd, and deviant. The plates, mugs, tablecloths, and soap in this collection are adorned with surreal images taken from the magazine Toilet Paper, founded in 2010 by the two Italian artists.
Perfectly manicured cut fingers, a bitten soap, a fish stuffed with gemstones, a canary with a clipped wing... The dreamlike and darkly humorous patterns of Toilet Paper draw inspiration from fashion, advertising, combining commercial photography, twisted visual narratives, and surreal imagery. Toilet Paper questions our contemporary obsession with images by exploring our most unspeakable desires and impulses.
The various pieces in the Toilet Paper collection are striking artworks, blending disturbing normality and unsettling ambiguity, where horror mixes with visual pleasure.
As a work of art in itself, the Toilet Paper collection challenges, through its affordable price and wide distribution, the nature and limits of the contemporary art market. A question that has always been at the heart of Maurizio Cattelan's work...
Plastic mirror by SELETTI.