Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art.
13 Facts About Piero Manzoni
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Piero Manzoni's work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values".
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Piero Manzoni's work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society after World War II.
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Italian artists such as Piero Manzoni had to negotiate the new economic and material order of post-war Europe through inventive artistic practices which crossed geographic, artistic, and cultural borders.
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Piero Manzoni died of myocardial infarction in his studio in Milan on February 6,1963.
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Self-taught as an artist, Piero Manzoni first exhibited at the Soncino's Castle in Soncino in August 1956, at the age of 23.
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Piero Manzoni's work changed irrevocably after visiting Yves Klein's exhibition 'Epoca Blu' at the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan, January 1957.
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Piero Manzoni experimented with phosphorescent paint and cobalt chloride so that the colours would change over time.
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Piero Manzoni founded the Azimut Gallery in Milan in 1959 with the artist Enrico Castellani, and staged a series of revolutionary exhibitions of multiples.
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In May 1961 Piero Manzoni created 90 small cans, sealed with the text Artist's Shit.
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Piero Manzoni designated a number of people, including Umberto Eco, as authentic works of art gratis.
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Various other experimental pieces by Piero Manzoni included trying to create a mechanical animal as a moving sculpture and using solar energy as a power source.
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Piero Manzoni's work is represented in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce in Genoa.