MAURIZIO CATTELAN Maurizio Cattelan (born in Padova, Italy, in 1960) is a self-taught artist. He did many odd jobs, including one at a mortuary, before he started his career in Forlì (Italy) making wooden furniture in the eighties where he came to know some artists like Ettore Sottsass. He made a catalogue of his work which he sent to galleries. This promotion gave him an opening contemporary art. He created a sculpture of an ostrich with its head buried in the ground, wore a costume of a figurine with a giant head of Picasso, he affixed a Milanese gallerist to a wall with tape, and founded the Oblomov Foundation. Most recently, Cattelan has taken on the role of curator. He created a magazine called Permanent Food which includes images stolen from other magazines. Par Peur de l'Amour, a sculpture of an elephant in a Klu Klux Klan uniform, sold at Christie's in 2004 for $2.7 million. More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan