Pirelli Hangarbicocca presents, from 15 July 2021 to 20 February 2022, international artist Maurizio Cattelan’s exhibition "Breath Ghosts Blind", curated by Roberta Tenconi and Vincente Todolì: a site-specific project that wants to address universal concepts such as the fugacity of life, memory and the sense of individual and collective loss. The spaces of the Pirelli Hangarbicocca mark the exhibition path in three acts, tracing the stages of human existence showing to the visitors the extreme fragility. "Breath Ghosts Blind" presents the reconfiguration of a historical work together with the unpublished ones through symbolic references that belong to the collective imagination and questioning the current value system. Cattelan’s project addresses the great questions of the human being through works that explore themes such as death, love, destiny, loneliness, and failure both in their personal and collective dimensions making, as their starting point, an image.

The artist in fact questions the effect caused by certain images and the reasons behind the apparent acceptance of the most ambiguous and disturbing situations; so, in a process of selection and synthesis, the artist condenses the themes with references, creating a single new image of great impact. On the occasion of the exhibition at the Pirelli HangarBicocca, a publication that will include critical contributions by Francesco Bonami and Nancy Spector will be realized with Marsilio Editori, together with a conversation between Maurizio Cattelan and the curators of the exhibition Roberta Tenconi and Vincente Todolì.