Cattelan maurizio

photography by TOILETPAPER with PIERPAOLO FERRARI interview by OLIVIER ZAHM OLIVIER ZAHM — You actually seem to be busier than ever since you announced your retirement after the exhibition “All” in 2012. In 2016, you even installed the sculpture America at the Guggenheim. “Retiring” from making artworks and installations and art shows seemed to be more an artistic gesture than your actual disappearance. Was your retirement a way to still be active in the art world without pretending to be part of it? MAURIZIO CATTELAN — I must admit I’m not sure anymore about what the reasons for my retirement were. It’s like trying to remember a dream when you’re having breakfast and starting your day: the memory is so hazy and the breakfast so yummy that it doesn’t matter anymore. What happens is that probably I desired so much to stop working that when I finally managed to conquer…