Press release

Joep Van Lieshout
October 20th - January 5th 1997
The space of "La Rue" will be spread in two parts, on each side of the main curved wall, where will be presented an important work by Allen Ruppersberg.
At the entrance of "La Rue", will be exhibited mobile habitations prototypes, recent pieces by Joep van Lieshout.

Joep van Lieshout, born in 1963, lives and works in Rotterdam.


Jouke Kleerebezem & Paul Perry
October 20th - January 5th 1997
The second part of "La Rue" will present a kind of "Noah's Arc”, showing the work of Jouke Kleerebezem & Paul Perry, a metallic structure covered with giraffe skin and partially military camouflage's ground sheets.

Jouke Kleerebezem, born in 1953, lives and works in Amsterdam.
Paul Perry, born in London in 1956, lives and works in Groningen, Holland.


Maurizio Cattelan
October 20th - January 5th 1997
Maurizio Cattelan adds two works to the bestiary, Love Saves Life, 1995 and Trotsky’s Ballad, 1996.
The former calls to mind a fable, a children’s story: a chicken on a dog on a donkey… here stuffed and attached, one on top of the other. The latter, a suspended mare, recreated with horse hide affixed to a structure, compares the realism of form and verbal metaphor.
With wit and poetry, these works highlight one of the paradoxes of art: the realistic illusion of fiction.

Maurizio Cattelan, born in 1960 at Padua (Italy). Works and lives in Milan and New York.