Biography: 1933-1957 1933-1955. The fingerprint is the only sign of the personality that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there's the artist's own shit, that is really his.When I blow up a balloon, I am breathing my soul into an object that becomes eternal.There is nothing to say: there is only being, there is only living. Todesort: Mailand. Why not trying to uncover the infinite meaning of absolute space, the meaning of pure and absolute light?Paintings are and will always be magical objects, almost religious. This early interest in the use of manifestos to define the individual intentions of the artist would continue throughout his career and develop into a critical view of the conventions of the art world.Through his friendship with Fontana he affiliated himself with the International Nuclear Movement in 1957.
At the age of 15 his father died from a heart attack, with Manzoni taking to art shortly after.Manzoni never formally trained or pursed an art education, but started to paint at the age of 17, working independently to create traditional landscapes and figurative works. Piero Manzoni (født 13. juli 1933, død 6. februar 1963) var en italiensk kunstner, som var bedst kendt for sin ironisk konceptuelle kunst.. Manzoni begyndte som maler; han komponerede musik og han udførte skulptur.Mest kendt er han for en række kunstværker, der sætter spørgsmålstegn ved selve kunstbegrebet. He exhibited these works alongside Enrico Castellani at the Galleria La Tartaruga in Rome. On October 16, 2015, tin 54 was sold at Christies for the astonishing sum of £182,500. Manzoni's way of working became more and more and more radical. Biography: 1960 1960. Among those thus recognised as work of art were Marcel Broodthaers, Umberto Eco, Emilio Villa, Henk Peters. Manzoni signed his first human beings certifying them as Living sculptures (Sculture viventi). Geboren am: 13.07.1933. Piero Manzoni was born on 13 July 1933 in Soncino, a village in the Po Valley not far form Cremona. The artist represents this new human condition herald. He studies law at the Accademia die Brera as of 1951 and takes private drawing classes as of 1953, discontinuing his law studies a year later, in order to go to Rome to study art and philosophy. The 'Nucleari' group exhibited at the Galleria San Fedele in Milan in the same year, with the exhibition including the artists Enrino Baj, Franco Bemporard, Mario Rossello, During 1961, Manzoni continued to question how the art object was constituted. The second (and last) issue of "Azimuth" was published in January, on the occasion of a fundamental show inaugurated at the Azimut Gallery: showing along with Manzoni were Kilian Breier, Enrico Castellani, Oskar Holweck, Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Almir Mavignier. Der italienische Maler. His father was Egisto Manzoni, Conte di Chiosca and Poggiolo. Er war ein Bahnbrecher des Happenings. The concept for this exhibition was looking at the "disappearing of the work of art", an idea which stemmed from a manifesto signed by Manzoni in 1960 and was published in Basle, the "Manifesto contro niente per l'esposizione internazionale di niente (Manifesto against nothing for the international exposition of nothing)". "Piero Manzoni Artist Overview and Analysis". In 1962 his work was featured at the Zero exhibitions in Antwerp and Bern, and he also participated in the show of Nul (Nothingness) in Amsterdam at the Stedlijk Musuem, which was organized by one of his peers, artist Henk Peters. Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. His full name was Count Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo. Piero spent most of his childhood in Milan where he attended the prestigious Jesuit school Liceo Leone XIII. Piero Manzoni was born in Soncino near Milan on July 13, 1933. His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Self-taught as an artist, Manzoni first exhibited at the In May 1961 Manzoni created 90 small cans, sealed with the text "It is a joke, a parody of the art market, and a critique of consumerism and the waste it generates."