Part One: Highlights from Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milan

Design and exceptional craftsmanship abound in Milan for the 2015 Salone del Mobile. Every corner of the city - including private palazzos and high end retail establishments – are transformed into an exhibition space showing local and global furniture design. Highlights include artist Maurizio Cattelan's LOVE sculpture, which is just a middle finger, outside the Milano Stock Exchange splashed with film projections. Also, Wallpaper and Leclettico bring you an exhibition of high-end handmade wares. Browse through photos above to see much more. Full coverage and photos by Juanco Viso for Autre. 

Maurizio Cattelan @ Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw

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After one year of silence and retirement from the art-world, Maurizio Cattelan and his works are once again arousing questions regarding life and death in a museum exhibition; the first exhibition after his well-known and successful Guggenheim retrospective. On display at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw is a selection of the artist's most significant works. In them, he poses questions as to the contemporary understanding of death, sacrifice, forgiveness, the genesis of evil in humankind, national identity, and historical memory. Maurizio Cattelan, Amen, will be on view at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw until February 24, 2013.

Maurizio Cattelan Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery

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Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b.1960) is known as the art world’s agent provocateur, using what seem to be stunts to address universal themes around the nature of dogma, power and death. A new solo display, currently on view at Whitechapel Gallery in London, includes one of his earliest works - a miniature family kitchen featuring a squirrel that has committed suicide. Bidibidobidiboo (1996), after the fairy godmother’s song in Disney’s Cinderella, encapsulates Cattelan’s acerbic wit and his melancholic worldview. This exhibition is a part of a series of exhibitions presenting the Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from Turin. The exhibition opened yesterday and is on view until December 2, 2012, at Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN: ALL

Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist, Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures that reveal contradictions at the core of today’s society. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique. On view starting today at the Guggenheim in New York City, a major retrospective of Maurizio Cattelan is on view – literally hanging in the middle of the museums rotunda. Maurizio Cattelan: All is on view until January 22, 2012.  

Images Kill: Toilet Paper Magazine

"Toilet Paper is a new magazine directed by Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. Following in the wake of Cattelan’s cult publication ‘Permanent Food’, Toilet Paper is a new generation magazine that combines commercial photography, twisted narratives and surrealistic imagery to create a series of powerful visual tableaux." You can buy an issue here.  www.toiletpapermagazine.com