Italian artist Cattelan’s latest satirical work is a bullet-riddled golden wall

Cattelan’s installation ‘Sunday’ at Gagosian gallery in New York consists of 64 panels plated with 24-karat gold and pockmarked by gunfire. Photo: AP

The first thing that strikes you, arriving in the gallery that houses artist Maurizio Cattelan’s latest satirical work, is the gleam. The brilliant gleam of 64 panels coated with 24-karat gold - in all, a glittering wall 5m tall and 21m wide.

The second is the pockmarks on all that gold, created by more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition fired from six different weapons.