Maurizio Cannavacciuolo. Catalogo della mostra (Boston, March 10-August 15 2004)

TV Dinner documents an important installation at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Maurizio Cannavacciuolo. The Italian artist's first museum exhibition in the U.S., TV Dinneris an intricately patterned site-specific wall draw-ing, executed in two parts, which contains hidden narratives about the museum's col-lection and legendary founder as well as ele-ments characteristic of Cannavacciuolo's personal myths and low-key humor.
The book documents the five-month installa-tion and surveys Cannavacciuolo's earlier works. Essays include an examination of the process by which Cannavacciuolo created this monumental yet ephemeral work and a consideration of his wider eouvre with par-ticular attention to the role of performance and patterning in his art.