CACTUSRAMA at TRIENNALE MILANO

The exhibition will display a circular carousel with eight views reflecting the different CACTUS®’ characters. The first booth displays ANOTHER GREEN CACTUS® and ANOTHER WHITE CACTUS® standing tall under a series of arches that create the optical illusion of depth while remaining faithful to the sculpture’s natural proportions. Paul Smith collaborated on the multi-color PSYCHEDELIC CACTUS®, which is set in a mirrored, bright yellow, mystified environment. ROSSOCACTUS® and NEROCACTUS® are represented respectively on black and red lacquered settings as the yin and the yang, complementary opposites. In a total-blue set, as in the original magazine’s cover, GOD is the representation of a design myth that TOILETPAPER (Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari) chose to destroy. ANDY’S PINK CACTUS®, ANDY’S YELLOW CACTUS® and ANDY’S BLUE CACTUS®, the latest limited editions in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, are placed in a silver room inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory itself. The edition in collaboration with Ordovas Gallery is placed on a black stage with a luminescent green grid on which RADIANT CACTUS® shines through. LEBLEUCACTUS®, the homage to France and originally presented on occasion of Gufram’s return to Paris, is set in an essential wooden booth. METACACTUS® with its two colours, indicative of the shining sun’s ability to modify the ever-resistant cactus’ mantle, is represented in the desert environment where hues are muted.