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One of his best known sculptures, La Nona Ora (1999), consists of an effigy of Pope John Paul II in full ceremonial costume being crushed by a meteor. In 1999 he started making life-size wax effigies of various subjects, including himself. Another work utilizing taxidermy is Bidibidobidiboo (1996), a miniature depiction of a squirrel slumped over its kitchen table, a handgun at its feet. Novecento (1997) consists of the taxidermied body of a former racehorse named Tiramisu, which hangs by a harness in an elongated, drooping posture. Ĭattelan is commonly noted for his use of taxidermy during the mid-1990s. Ĭattelan's first artwork has been noted as a photo art piece in 1989 entitled Lessico Familiare (Family Syntax), a framed self-portrait in which he is depicted forming a Hand Heart over his naked chest. 'Frequently morbidly fascinating, Cattelan's humour sets his work above the visual pleasure one-liners,' wrote Carol Vogel of the New York Times. Originality is about your capacity to add.' His work was often based on simple puns or subverts clichéd situations by, for example, substituting animals for people in sculptural tableaux. Discussing the topic of originality with ethnographer, Sarah Thornton, Cattelan explained, 'Originality doesn't exist by itself. Binstock, curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art 'as one of the great post- Duchampian artists and a smartass, too'.

Humour and satire are at the core of Cattelan's work this approach has often seen him labelled variously as an art scene joker, jester or prankster.

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