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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Joanna Moorhead

Calling all sinners: for his latest work, artist Maurizio Cattelan wants people to confess

Headshot of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan wearing a black hoodie and looking at the camera, not smiling.
Maurizio Cattelan previously drew the ire of some Catholics with his artworks. Photograph: Jonas Ekströmer/TT/Shutterstock

“If you’re here to confess your sins, press one …”

That’s the message awaiting callers to a special hotline from Thursday. But it’s not a digital Catholic church initiative for the Easter weekend: instead, it’s the latest intervention of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who scandalised some with his 1999 sculpture La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), which showed a lifesize Pope John Paul II being struck down by a meteorite.

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