Gianni Motti

how not be surprised

artists series by MAURIO CATTELAN in collaboration with MARTA PAPINI 
portrait by GIASCO BERTOLI 

 

Broker, 2005, Unlimited at Art Basel 36, Basel

 

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Why do you do what you do?
GIANNI MOTTI — I don’t really know why. It’s a mystery even to me.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — If you weren’t an artist, what would you be?
GIANNI MOTTI — A chair umpire in tennis? As a child, I was a ball boy, and I was jealous of the man up in the high chair enjoying his great view.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Isn’t your work more a caption for the world than an image?
GIANNI MOTTI — Maybe so, but the world is so complex that it’s hard to give it a caption.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN — Are your pieces intended to be chronicles of reality?
GIANNI MOTTI…