Palazzo dell’Arengario

Bijoy Jain was born in 1965. After studying in the UK and the US, he returned to India in 1995, where he founded Studio Mumbai. His work has been exhibited in museums such as the V&A in London (2010) and at the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2010 and 2016). In recent years, he has pursued a solo career as an artist. An exhibition of his work opened in March 2017 at the contemporary art space Assab One.

Maurizio Cattelan rose to international fame in New York with his wax sculpture La Nona Ora (“The Ninth Hour”), portraying Pope John Paul II being hit by a meteorite, which was first exhibited in 1999 at the Kunsthalle Basel. Since 2010, his public art project L.O.V.E., located in Piazza degli Affari, Milan, has encouraged the re-appropriation of a hitherto-forgotten city square.