Toad in the hole: Toiletpaper launches vibrant limited edition monograph

There's nothing quite like Toiletpaper for pricking the pre-conceptions that swirl around the contemporary art world. Artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari created the publication as an iconoclastic riposte to the self-conscious eccentricities and art-world borrowings of the publishing industry, reasoning that boundaries were there to be pushed, colour was there to be saturated, and artful vignettes could be cooked up to defeat even the most in-depth explanation.
The second Toiletpaper monograph, the Platinum Collection reassembles some of the vibrant and memorable images from the past five issues of the magazine, interspersed with a truly wide-ranging selection of texts, culled from 19th century journals, Wikipedia and several other unexpected sources. Imagery is the lifeblood of the Toiletpaper aesthetic, always bright, often scatological or willfully perverse; the Platinum Collection doesn't disappoint.
Some of these shoots were created for other magazines, eager to square the circle of influence and bring back a little art-infused edginess into their pages – Purple, Kenzine, and Dazed & Confused among them. Just 1,000 copies are available, each with its own toad-printed 'Toiletpaper watch', a new way of living a very unconventional brand.
The tome reassembles a plethora of vibrant and memorable images from the past five issues of the magazine, interspersed with a truly wide-ranging selection of texts.
Just 1,000 copies are available, each with its own toad-printed 'Toiletpaper watch', a new way of living a very unconventional brand.
Artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari created the publication as an iconoclastic riposte to the self-conscious eccentricities and art-world borrowings of the publishing industry.
The texts inside the book are variously culled from 19th century journals, Wikipedia and several other unexpected sources.
Pussy Black-Face or The Story Of A Kitten And Her Friends, by Marshall Saunders, 1913.
Imagery is the lifeblood of the Toiletpaper aesthetic, always bright, often scatological or willfully perverse
Drawn from Wikipedia, pictured here is Toiletpaper's definition of 'Behavioral Sink'.
Toiletpaper reasons that boundaries were there to be pushed, colour to be saturated, and artful vignettes to be cooked up to defeat even the most in-depth explanation.
INFORMATION
Toiletpaper Volume II: Platinum Collection, €130, published by Damiani. For more information, visit the publisher’s website
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