Piero Manzoni is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Piero Manzoni as Italian artist (1933-1963).
Piero Manzoni was born at Soncino in 1933. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.
He worked as artist, painter and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is arte povera.
Among his best-known works are Artist's Shit, Achromes and Linee. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Piero Manzoni died in 1963, aged 30. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Artist's Shit
- Notable work: Achromes
- Notable work: Linee
- Notable work: Body of Air
- Movement: Arte Povera
