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"The art-world provocateur Maurizio Cattelan has a way of subverting expectations. When he found himself uninspired and empty-handed for his first solo show in 1989, he shut the gallery door and posted a sign: &amp;quot;Torno Subito,&amp;quot; or Be Back Soon. Two decades later, he has approached his first retrospective by making light of his career\u2014quite literally. With the help of a sturdy aluminum truss and a network of cables, 128 of his pieces now hang en masse from the Guggenheim&amp;#039;s rotunda, to be viewed in the round from the spiraling aisles. As The New York Times reported, two owners declined to lend their art; one can understand why. The taxidermy works, from a shrouded elephant to a golden retriever, speak to mortality, echoed by Cattelan&amp;#039;s newly announced retirement from art-making. His irreverent streak shines through with the waxworks\u2014Pope John Paul II laid out by a meteorite in La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour, 1999), and a wall-mounted bust of supermodel Stephanie Seymour. If you want a closer look at the artworks and commentary by curators, gallerists, and the artist himself, naturally, there&amp;#039;s an app for that.  &amp;quot;Maurizio Cattelan: All,&amp;quot; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, through January 22, 2012; guggenheim.org "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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