Permanent Food
Maurizio Cattelan's *Permanent Food* is a magazine project conceived as an ongoing collaborative publication, assembled entirely from images clipped and appropriated from other magazines without permission or credit. The work functions as a visual archive of found imagery, reflecting Cattelan's characteristically subversive approach to authorship, ownership, and the circulation of images within consumer culture. Its deliberately ambiguous medium blurs the line between artwork and publication, challenging conventional definitions of artistic production.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
December 12, 2013
Artists in conversation
Richard Prince
American · b. 1949
Prince's practice of rephotographing and appropriating existing magazine images without credit directly mirrors the visual strategy of Permanent Food, interrogating authorship and the mass circulation of consumer imagery.
Sherrie Levine
American · b. 1947
Levine's foundational appropriation art practice challenges original authorship and ownership by reproducing existing cultural images, engaging the same conceptual questions about who owns a picture that drive Cattelan's magazine project.
John Baldessari
American · b. 1931
Baldessari assembled found photographic imagery from print media into conceptual collage works that question how images accumulate meaning, sharing Permanent Food's archival and collaborative approach to appropriated visual culture.
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