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A New York City museum is offering visitors a chance to sit on a golden throne, but only in private.
As part of his "America" exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan replaced the toilet in the museum's fourth-floor restroom with a fully functional replica cast in 18-karat gold.
Viewers are welcome to use the solid gold toilet just as they would any other facility.
It's the first piece Cattelan has exhibited since his 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim. It opened on Friday, AFP reports.
The Guggenheim, on the famous Fifth Avenue, says on its website that the piece is about “making available to the public an extravagant luxury product seemingly intended for the one percent”, according to the museum .
Is also describes the gold loo as “a bold, irreverent work.” Visitors really are allowed to use the expensive seat. All you have to do is pay standard museum admission, and away you go.
Cattelan, 55, is a truck driver’s son from Milan and hints that his work is inspired by economic inequality and clearly wants to flush away financial unfairness as reported by Mirror UK.
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