Toilet Paper is a textless magazine from Italy created and produced by visual artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari, created out of their mutual obsession with pushing the boundaries of image-making.
Issue 20 of Toilet Paper delivers another 29 dreamy, surrealistic, kitsch and even nightmarish tableaux for your pleasure.
Following in the wake of Cattelan's cult publication Permanent Food, the magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists' mental outbursts. Since the first issue, in 2010, Toilet Paper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. It combines the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art which, through its accessible form as a magazine, and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.