Since its very first issue in June 2010,Toilet Papermagazine, the brainchild of Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, has celebrated the riotous and repulsive image. In an interview withVogue Italia, Ferrari said that "the project emerged from a passion/obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst."
Each issue of the magazine features full spreads of surrealistic color photographs, shot in the slick style and eye-popping hues of commercial photography, unencumbered and unmediated by text. Despite Cattelan's alleged retirement from art,Toilet Paperhas shown no signs of slowing down, spawning calendars, books, vinyl records and homewares, as well as the biannual magazine.
In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the firstToilet Paperanthology,Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari: Toilet Paper, Volume IIpresents a selection of the best images from the past five issues ofToilet Papermagazine alongside special projects shot by Cattelan and Ferrari for such publications asPurple,New York Magazine,Kenzine,Le MondeandDazed & Confused. All are collected in this deluxe hardcover volume, a book as at home on the coffee table as it is in the bathroom.
Print length: 232 pages Language: English Publisher: Damiani Publication date: October 27, 2015 Dimensions: 9.3 x 0.9 x 12.3 inches