The Beautiful Country

Cattelan’s work often has an element of parody.Il Bel Paese (The Beautiful Country), 1994, he enlarged the label of the eponymous cheese to make a circular rug. The flattering metaphor of the title, used by Dante and Petrarch to refer to the marvels of the Italian peninsula, is thus corrupted and transformed into an element that can be trampled and potentially ruined by the continuous passage of visitors.