Maurizio Cattelan is a contemporary Italian Conceptual artist. Known equally for his dark humor as for his realistic sculpture, he frequently depicts celebrities, art historical figures, or taxidermied animals in comically absurd scenes. Cattelan takes inspiration from the Dadaist and Surrealist movements to create his biting and surreal satire, as evidenced in La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour (1999), where Pope John Paul II is struck down by a meteor, or in Not Afraid of Love (2000), where a life-sized elephant stands hidden in a white sheet, its curious eyes peering out from two cut holes. His work alludes to a sense of failure or shame through psychological projection, and has at times sparked controversy for their irreverence towards normally...