Couple weeks ago, I visited an exhibition of Maurizio Cattelan at Guggenheim. For his retrospective, Cattelan chose the unusual style to exhibit his work---he decided to hung everything from the ceilling.
I learned about Cattelan for the first time during this visit, and I was impressed. He was born 1960 in Italy, and became a well-known post-modern artist of his era. As Guggenheim describes, his works is strongly "disruptive and disrespectful" toward establishments and authorities---political, religious or artistic---and he made very strong statements in really smart and cynical way. Many of his work looked a bit humorous, and really really dark at the same time. Often you have to look close, read plates and think about it for a while to find out how dark it actually is (there were a lot of animals in his work, and I was pretty disturbed when I learned they are all actual stuffed animals). The style of exhibition was itself his latest and probably largest project, and he did it right. I would really recommend you to actually go & see, but in case you miss, here are pictures.
Guggenheim has a really great application for iPhone and iPad, explaining each works. Check them out.
