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"‘Toiletpaper’ is an artists’ magazine created and produced by Maurizio CATTELAN and Pierpaolo FERRARI, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images.
The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts.
Since the first issue, in June 2010, ‘Toiletpaper’ has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery.
The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy. (...)
In the last three years, photos published in the magazine have been applied to a variety of products and media, exploring the multiple possibilites for images to live beyond the pages. ‘Toiletpaper’ images have been reviewed by weekly and art magazines worldwide and appeared in special issues of magazines such as Vice and Hunger.
‘Toiletpaper’ was also exhibited on the High Line Billboard in Chelsea, NYC in May, 2012. In the same year images taken from the first six issues have been published in an anthology, together with selected narrative texts, that was reviewed in 'The New York Times’ Top 10 Photo Books. In June 2013, ‘Toiletpaper’ images have featured on Palais de Tokyo’s front windows and a special edition of Libération." (publisher's note)
In 2016 LesRencontres D'Arles used a motif for posters, program and entrance cards.
The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists’ mental outbursts.
Since the first issue, in June 2010, ‘Toiletpaper’ has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery.
The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy. (...)
In the last three years, photos published in the magazine have been applied to a variety of products and media, exploring the multiple possibilites for images to live beyond the pages. ‘Toiletpaper’ images have been reviewed by weekly and art magazines worldwide and appeared in special issues of magazines such as Vice and Hunger.
‘Toiletpaper’ was also exhibited on the High Line Billboard in Chelsea, NYC in May, 2012. In the same year images taken from the first six issues have been published in an anthology, together with selected narrative texts, that was reviewed in 'The New York Times’ Top 10 Photo Books. In June 2013, ‘Toiletpaper’ images have featured on Palais de Tokyo’s front windows and a special edition of Libération." (publisher's note)
In 2016 LesRencontres D'Arles used a motif for posters, program and entrance cards.
- Format
- SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 29 x 1 cm., 40 pp., 22 color ills., 300 gr., no text