The Provocateur of the Contemporary Era In the grand, often self-serious theater of contemporary art, few figures command attention with as much mischievous brilliance as Maurizio Cattelan. Born in Padua, Italy, in 1960, Cattelan did not emerge from a traditional fine arts background, but rather from the tactile world of craftsmanship, having begun his professional journey in the 1980s crafting wooden furniture in Forlì. This early in…