The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's first exhibition at Anthony d'Offay Gallery is a site-specific installation at no. 9 Dering Street. Untitled consists of a black granite wall, three metres long and two metres high. On it is carved a list of all the matches ever lost by the English national football team, since they were first defeated by Scotland in 1874. Modelled after the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C., the work evokes the grandeur of monumental sculpture, whilst wryly commenting on society's need to memorialise national grief and quantify loss. In the end, Cattelan says, "It is sometimes in our weaknesses that we find the best part of ourselves."

Working in a variety of media, which ranges from performance to photography and taxidermy, Cattelan has a reputation for being one of the enfant terribles of the art world, and has been described as a trickster, an anarchist and a jester. His work engages directly with the infrastructure of the gallery and the public institution, bringing to light the complexities in the relationships between artists, patrons and audience. As a result, Cattelan's work often mocks the art establishment : At the Museum of Modern Art in New York's Project 65 last year, the artist hired an actor whom he outfitted with an oversized Pablo Picasso mask and sailor top to greet visitors to the Museum.

Born in Padua, Italy in 1960, Maurizio Cattelan lives and works in New York. He has exhibited widely in Europe and in the United States. Since 1995 he has published Permanent Food, a second-generation magazine published twice-yearly, which consists solely of pages appropriated from magazines all over the world.

Cattelan's work will feature in Daperttutto at this years Venice Biennale, and in London at the Tate Gallery's Abracadabra exhibition this Summer.