maurizio cattelan L.O.V.E Installation

This is a controversial piece done by maurizio cattelan  which was displayed in milan’s piazza affari, in front of the italian stock exchange building. The piece is called L.O.V.E it’s made of marble, about 4 meters high and has been allocated on a base that brings the sculpture to a total height of 11 meters. during the making process, Cattelean changed the original title from  ‘omnia munda mundis’ – literally meaning ‘to the pure [men], all things [are] pure’, a latin sentence that has entered a relatively common usage in many countries – to ‘L.O.V. E.’

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