Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art.

Piero Manzoni was an Italian of noble birth now best known for canning and selling his own excrement in the name of art.

Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art.

This biography, reconstructed through the study of and research into documents and eye-witness accounts, covers the principal phases in Piero Manzoni’s life and has been curated by Flaminio Gualdoni. For further information please see: F. Gualdoni, Piero Manzoni. An Artist’s Life, Gagosian, New York, 2019.

Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) Italian artist and creator of Merda d'Artista, pioneering avant-garde artist whose excrement became the ultimate anti-art gesture.

Meroni 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.

Piero Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art.

The renowned Italian artist Piero Manzoni emerged as a powerful voice for the avant-garde in the 1950s, debuting as an artist at the ‘4a Fiera mercato: Mostra d’arte contemporanea’ in 1956.

Piero Manzoni was an Italian Conceptual artist best known for his shocking pieces that questioned the nature of art objects. View Piero Manzoni’s 859 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Mar 20, 2009 · Known for his ironic and provocative approach to artistic production, Italian artist Piero Manzoni created a body of work that challenged conventional notions of art and its value. Irreverent and often humorous, his practice relied on an implicit criticism of the mass production and consumerism prevalent in postwar Italy. In his Artist’s Breath series, for example, he …