"Arguably the most talked-about piece at the fair (beyond Beeple's pack of billionaire-headed robot dogs) is the perennial prankster Maurizio Cattelan's monumental provocation on Gagosian's stand. The piece, Bones (2025), is a Carrara marble sculpture of an eagle crashing to the ground, a heavy (and heavy-handed) metaphor for the state of the nation. Installed in an alcove painted a dark burgundy, the piece has been attracting flocks of selfie-takers."
""When Maurizio nails it, Maurizio is the best at capturing in one image what's going on," Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel's chief artistic officer and global director of fairs, tells The Art Newspaper. "The metaphor of the current status of the country-that I dearly love, because I've been spending ten years of my life in this country-that metaphor is perfect for the time that we're living in, and to be presented like that in Miami at the end of the year, it's great.""
One year into Donald Trump's second presidential administration, most exhibitors at Art Basel Miami Beach are not foregrounding overtly political themes. A handful of standout works engage political symbolism, most notably Maurizio Cattelan's Bones, a Carrara marble sculpture of a crashing eagle installed in a burgundy alcove that has attracted many selfie-takers. Several galleries present American iconography with ambiguous or apolitical tones, including a suspended replica Statue of Liberty by Lonnie Holley, Robert Indiana's Ms America (2001), and American-flag works such as David Hammons's African American Flag (1990) and a Cady Noland piece.
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