Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist who began his career designing furniture but turned to sculpture and conceptual art in the early 1990s and quickly garnered a reputation for a sense of humour and a penchant for blurring the distinction between art and reality. Despite so much satiric critique of the art world and society in general, Cattelan deftly manages—for the most part—to enthrall rather than enrage his audience and his peers.