Maurizio Cattelan

«Maurizio Cattelan was born in 1960 in the North Italian university town of Padua, he started his career in the eighties creating anti-functional design objects before deciding to work in the art world, which, in his own words, he found “much more appealing.” Since then, Cattelan has become an internationally renowned artist, even though he would not describe himself as one. He lives and works in New York and Milan. He has had solo exhibitions in some of the most distinguished museums worldwide».