See also: Manzoni

Piero Manzoni , born in 1933 and died in 1963 is an artist Italy N, pioneer of the Arte Povera and Conceptual art.

Biography of Piero

The family of Piero Manzoni will attend as of the beginning Lucio Fontana, with which he will define the guiding line of its work.

In 1956, Piero Manzoni carries out its first exposure to the " IV mercato" will trust; castle Sforzesco de Soncino. It publishes the first poster of its exposure: Per the scoperta di una shingles di immagini (For the discovery of a zone of image).

The following year it signs a Manifeste against the style with Gruppo Nucleare (nuclear group) and takes part in an exposure: " Arte Nucleare" (Nuclear Art) with the gallery San Fedele in Milan. It publishes a poster: Per una will pittura organica (for an organic painting). It paints anthropomorphic silhouettes and executives with prints of objects: pinze, Igitur, Ipotesi (1956-1957).

In 1958, it exposes with Lucio Fontana and Enrico Baj to the Gallery Lord's Prayer of Milan. It is at this time that it develops its first Achromes. These works, influenced by Yves Klein, will mark especially the beginning of its career. With achromes , it paints the white large surfaces worked with the felt, chalk white and soaked with adhesive and Kaolin.

In 1959 it definitively leaves It gruppo nucleare and starts then a collaboration with Enrico Castellani, which deeply will fall under its work, and Agostini Bonalumi. It founds the review Azimuth at the same time as the gallery of the same name. This review presents works of Klein, Pomodoro, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Piero Dorazio, Novelli and Angeli. It also will come into contact with the Groupe zero of Düsseldorf. The work of Manzoni, becomes increasingly radical, in particular thanks to its various collaborations. He seeks at all costs to attack with the middle-class, and the tradition. In addition to continuing its research on the " Achromes" , he works on series of conceptual objects:

He will work on linee (lines), work in which he draws a continuous line of 7200 meters on a paper rolled up in a box. He also plans “to sign” 71 people as being works of art Sculture viventi , and with which he issue a certificate of authentification. He produces 45 corpi aria .

In 1960 it exposes with Klein, Mack and Castellani.

In 1961 défèque Manzoni in boxes (90 on the whole) which it will expose later under the title Merda of artista .

Piero Manzoni died of a myocardial infarction in Milan in 1963.

Works

• (4 works) " Achrome" , 1958-1959 (70x100cm), 1957-1958 (50x70cm), 1959 (70x50cm), 1958 (116x146cm), Kaolin/ruffled fabric, (Palazzo Grassi)

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