Run As Slow As You Can

The artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari have, since 2010, been amusing and disturbing a knowing global audience with their occasional magazine Toiletpaper. In keeping with their own work, it is quirky, conceptual, seductively surreal or sometimes starkly direct, and often quite rude.

There have been exhibitions with some of the work before but this is a first in being a truly immersive experience with full-on installations of images that decorate the spaces and impose themselves on the viewer. It is a signature show to help put Mumbai even more on the art map. In its culture though, the work is at core, very Italian. Not just because it has a lot of spaghetti imagery on the walls, or a love of a kind of retro-kitsch that seems to haunt Italian design and culture in wave after wave, It is more because there is a dayglo hyper-reality that can be found at times on the streets of Milan or Rome, in posters and shop windows, and on the TV there.

It is this specific pop culture that seems to infuse the visual language. Super-sophisticated, smart commentators who are globally attuned, this is the reputation we may wrap around Cattelan and Ferrari. But they also reveal their origins in their disturbing dreams.