Novecento and Not Afraid of Love have been shown around the world for more than 25 years, and neither has settled into a single meaning. Here are four responses, from the museums, galleries and writers who've spent time with them.
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What the critics said
"Created just before the turn of the millennium, Cattelan's horse may symbolise a country exhausted by a century of upheaval and violence."
Perrotin
"Novecento overturns the tradition of equestrian sculpture that was characterised by the representation of the hero on horseback, with its celebratory purpose, which for centuries has referred to power."
Castello di Rivoli
"It's impossible for the elephant to hide under a sheet. It's a ghost, but a very visible ghost. So in front of this creature, we laugh, we are not afraid of it. And when we are not afraid we are able to love."
UCCA
"Its alarmed little eyes, do artificial eyes really have expression, or is this my illusion?, can only, I imagine, be those of a certain Cattelan in the moment when it occurs to him that his art of evasion, his eternal Torno subito, can never disguise him for long."
The Nation
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