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At once sumptuous, witty and provocative, Cattelan and Ferrari’s 2023 calendar celebrates the many forms of love For the old and new loves, for the platonic and the imaginary ones, for the self-lovers and the universal loves, for love at first sight and for slow seductions. Disruptive aesthetic and provocative images live together in the hypnotic images in Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferarri’s 2023 love-themed Toilet Paper Calendar. Close your eyes and make your wish of love! The 2023 Toilet Paper wall calendar features photographs conceived by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari and taken from their magazine, an image-only publication devoted to the realization of surrealist ideas via commercial photography. Since its first issue in June 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.