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Sheet from - La lune en rodage I
Cork Print (Impronto Sughero)
1959
17 x 23 cm

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Piero Manzoni (1933-1963)

Soncino 19331963 Milan, Italy

1956 debut in 1956 at the "Fiera Mercato" in the Castello Sforzesco of Soncino 1957 took part in the exposition "Movimento Arte Nucleare" at the Galleria San Fedele, Milan.
His works were anthropomorphic silhouettes and canvases bearing the imprints of ordinary everyday objects.
1957 painted the first Achromes: completely white canvases covered with rough gesso and imbued with glue and liquid kaolin (white clay used in the production of porcelain).
1958 Piero Manzoni exposed with Lucio Fontana and Enrico BajI
He begun the collaboration with two artists, Enrico Castellani and Agostino Bonalumi
1959 they edited the first issue of "Azimuth", an avant-garde magazine, and founded the art gallery Azimut (run by Castellani and Manzoni).
Manzoni's way of working became more and more and more radical. His mature works investigated the limitation and the possibilities of the painted surface.
1960 on 21 July in Milan, Manzoni realized one of his more famous manifestations: the Consumption of dynamic art by the art-devouring public ("Consumazione dell'arte dinamica del pubblico divorare l'arte"). Manzoni marked with his thumbprint some hard-cooked eggs and offered them to the visitors, who were thus invited to "devour" art.
1961, in Rome, Piero Manzoni certificated his first human beings with his signature in order to create Living Sculptures. In the same year he carried through his most shocking gesture: he offered for sale at the then-current price of gold, ninety cans of Artist's Shit, each with a net weight of thirty grams.
1963 Piero Manzoni succumbed to a fatal infarction at the age of twenty-nine, in Milan, on 6 February.
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