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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Manzoni, Piero (1933 - 1963) Italy
Achrome, 1962
Cotton wool on board; 24 x 18 cm Conceptualism
UID 102-354
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Biography
Self-taught Italian artist who remained active, especially in painting. Soon after having begun painting, Manzoni questioned the traditional aims and methods of the artist, expressing the nature of the question both in writing as well as in the objects he created. Despite having known the work of Yves Klein since 1957 and, apparently, having been extremely impressed by it, Manzoni's work is clearly distinct from the monochromatic works of Klein: the desire to create a space destitute of any trace of colour, mark or material. At the beginning of 1958, he met the Zero group artists in Düsseldorf and began questioning the nature of an object of art in works prefiguring Conceptual Art. In the final years of his career, he produced his most monumental work, Socle of the World, a block of iron installed in the Sculpture Park in Angligarden in Denmark, supposedly to serve as a "base of the world". Manzoni's aim was to develop connections between art, the artist and the individual. In order to achieve this, he was frequently provocative.
Exhibitions
Ekspositie Nul I Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), The Netherlands 01-03-1962 ~ 31-03-1962
Panorama delle Nuove Tendenze Gallery Amstel 47, The Netherlands 01-03-1963 ~ 31-03-1963
Ekspositie Nul II Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), The Netherlands 01-01-1965 ~ 31-12-1965
Microzero Gallery Amstel 47, The Netherlands 01-08-1965 ~ 31-08-1965
Piero Manzoni (Paris) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 01-01-1991 ~ 30-04-1991
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Arte Povera in The Berardo Collection Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 15-10-2005 ~ 31-12-2005
Piero Manzoni (Finale Ligure) Galleria Regis, Italy 01-08-1967 ~ 31-08-1967
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
A Colecção Berardo a partir do Atelier Brancusi Galeria Jornal de Notícias, Portugal 26-01-2007 ~ 24-03-2007
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Arte Povera in The Berardo Collection , 2005 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas
Christie's, Contemporary Art, 1994 Published by Christie's
De Nieuwe Stijl 1959-66, 1990 Published by De Bezige Bij
Manzoni, 14 May 1969, 1969 Published by Museumjournal Stedelijk van Abbemuseum
Piero Manzoni, 1967 Published by Galleria Regis, Finale Ligure
Piero Manzoni, 1967
Piero Manzoni, 1991
Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, 1991
Piero Manzoni, Catalogo Generale, 1975
Piero Manzoni, Catalogue Stedelijk Museum, 1970
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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