美國博物館展出18K純金馬桶 對遊客開放使用

Members of the public are being invited to spend a penny in a solid gold toilet at New York City's Guggenheim Museum.

公衆只要花一點點錢，就可以在紐約古根海姆博物館使用純金馬桶如廁。

Italian artist and sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created the fully functional 18-carat gold lavatory, which he has titled America.

意大利藝術家、雕塑家卡泰蘭創作了這個18K純金馬桶，並將其命名爲“美國”。

The, ahem, interactive exhibit has been installed in one of the Guggenheim's public bathrooms, reports the New Yorker.

據《紐約客》報道，咳咳，這款互動展品的展出地點被安排在了古根海姆博物館的一間公廁裏。

The Fifth Avenue museum describes the piece as "a bold, irreverent work". The lavatory replaced one of the Guggenheim's porcelain toilets in a one-person, unisex restroom.

這座位於第五大道的博物館稱這件展品是“一件大膽、無禮的作品”。他們撤下了古根海姆博物館裏的一個陶瓷馬桶，在這個單人間、無性別廁所裏換上了這個純金的。

Visitors who pay museum admission will be able to use it as they wish.

訪客們只要向博物館支付進場費，就可以盡情地使用這個馬桶。

The exhibit is aimed at "making available to the public an extravagant luxury product seemingly intended for the 1 percent", according to the museum.

據博物館方面表示，這次展覽的目的是“讓普通大衆也能享受一回1%人羣專屬的極度奢靡”。

Cattelan, a Milan-based artist and a truck driver's son, hinted earlier this year that his creation had been inspired by economic inequality.

卡泰蘭是來自意大利米蘭的一名藝術家，他的父親是一名卡車司機。在今年早些時候，他曾暗示說這件作品是受到了經濟不平等的靈感啓發。

The exhibit has also drawn comparisons with Marcel Duchamp's avant-garde "Fountain", the porcelain urinal he exhibited in New York in 1917, causing a sensation in the art world.

這件展品也被人拿來和杜尚的前衛派作品《噴泉》做比較。杜尚於1917年在紐約展出了一件陶瓷小便池，引起了藝術界的轟動。