This week in the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl reviews the Guggenheim retrospective of the impish Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose works, Schjeldahl writes, “have provided the international art world with comic relief and the occasional news-making sensation since 1989. Now a hundred and twenty-eight of them—taxidermied animals, veristic wax figures, joke photographs, joke paintings, joke marble sculptures—dangle beneath the museum’s rotunda.” We asked Raymond Meier to capture the scene.
“I am a big fan of both the architecture of the museum and Maurizio Cattelan’s art,” Meier told me. “After walking down the spiral ramp, I knew immediately where I wanted to take my picture. The moment I was at that spot, I started to realize the complexity and the three-dimensionality of the exhibition. But it took me over two hours to find the proper viewpoint and crop.” Meier’s work is often seen on the pages of T Style magazine and Vogue. Though he primarily photographs fashion, his still lifes, architectural images, and portraits share a common spirit which he describes as “strong, simple, powerful graphics with a slight twist of oddness, not excluding humor.” Here’s a selection of some favorite images of Meier’s.
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