Francesco Bonami

On the occasion of Hans Ulrich Obrist's fiftieth birthday in 2018, Swiss gallery 107 S-chanf asked fellow curator Francesco Bonami to create a celebratory exhibition. Bonami's initial idea was to invite 50 artists to create 50 portraits of Obrist in an ambitious collaborative homage. Yet the idea proved a little too ambitious, and Bonami decided to create the portraits all...

First published in 2011 in Italian, and subsequently in 2013 in English, STUCK: Maurizio Cattelan: The Unauthorized Autobiography charts the life of the Italian artist beginning with his childhood in Italy. His longtime friend and collaborator Francesco Bonami assumes Cattelan's perspective and recounts with great humor episodes from the artist's life and decades-long career. The new edition includes illustrations of...