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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Manzoni, Piero (1933 - 1963) Italy
Achrome, 1958
Plaster on canvas; 80 x 60 cm Conceptualism
UID 102-355
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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
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
Arte Povera in The Berardo Collection Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 15-10-2005 ~ 31-12-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Malevich e o Cinema Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 17-05-2002 ~ 18-08-2002
Arte Cinética / Arte Op na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 29-09-2001 ~ 31-10-2001
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
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
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Malevich y el Cine, 2002
Piero Manzoni, 1975 Published by Prearo Editore
Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, 1991
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
Malevich e o Cinema, 2002 Published by Yale University Press New Haven and London and Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal ISBN 9728176724
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