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A self-taught artist assertive of 'bad aesthetic taste', Maurizio
Cattelan creates work underpinned by humor with "slight shifts of
reality" and a teasing of the art world "without ever falling into the
naive trap of thinking he can subvert a system of which he is
part." For instance, at his urging, Emmanuel Perrotin, his
gallery representative in Paris, dressed for a month as a gigantic pink
phallus.
Cattelan was born in Padua, Italy and works from a studio in
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