Bruno Catalano

[2] Originally from Morocco, Catalano is the third and youngest child of a Sicilian family.

[3] Catalano was acquainted with sculpting in 1981 in Marseille where he enrolled in Françoise Hamel's modeling classes.

After two years of education, he opened his own art practice in 1985 and secured an oven in which he would bake his first clay figure.

[4] In 2004 a flaw in one of his characters – a depiction of Cyrano – prompted him to dig and hollow out the chest.

[1][5] An exhibition of Catalano's sculptures entitled Les Voyageurs took place in Marseille in September 2013, to celebrate its status as the European Capital of Culture with ten life-size sculptures exhibited at the port of Marseille.