Piero Manzoni
curated by Germano Celant
10.05.07 | 24.09.07
The exhibition organized by the Museum of Naples Mother is the most comprehensive retrospective of Piero Manzoni ever produced with over 200 exhibits, photographs, videos, magazines and manuscripts. Curated by Germano Celant, it offers the opportunity to retrace the creative adventure of Manzoni through the different stages of his brief but intense career: from the beginning of 1956 to 1963, the year of his untimely death, allowing you to further discuss the scope of its innovative proposal, which has made him one of the protagonists of the twentieth century. Following an original methodology for a retrospective exhibition, the exhibition is spread over two narrative segments dialoguing with each other: the first aims to reconstruct the internal logic of the artist's personal research and the second to put his work in art-historical context age through a network of visual relationships and highlight influences and diversity, make comparisons and connections between the works by Manzoni and those of artists who have stimulated his investigation, such as Jean Fautrier, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein; which he shared with the purposes and intentions of research, and contemporaries such as Enrico Baj Enrico Castellani and Gianni Colombo, Heinz Mack and Jan Schoonhoven, or, finally, have followed research in some way related or similar outcomes in formal or conceptual, as Savior Scarpitta, Francesco Lo Savio, Cy Twombly, Günther Uecker, Mario Schifano and Giulio Paolini.
![Piero Manzoni, Senza titolo [Untitled] (1957)](http://mm.fondazionedonnaregina.it/foto/box_80/opera172_museo_madre.jpg)
Piero Manzoni
Senza titolo [Untitled] - 1957| Materials |
Oil and tar on canvas |
| Height: | cm. 40.00 |
| Width: | cm. 30.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1960 - 1961| Materials | expanded polystyrene and |
| Height: | cm. 27.00 |
| Width: | cm. 45.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials |
kaolin and squared canvas |
| Height: | cm. 130.00 |
| Width: | cm. 80.00 |
![Piero Manzoni, Merda d'artista [Artist's Shit] (1961)](http://mm.fondazionedonnaregina.it/foto/box_80/opera259_museo_madre.jpg)
Piero Manzoni
Merda d'artista [Artist's Shit] - 1961| Materials |
tin can and printed paper |
| Height: | cm. 4.80 |
| Width: | cm. 6.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials |
kaolin and square cloth |
| Height: | cm. 76.00 |
| Width: | cm. 97.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958| Materials |
Kaolin and wrinkled canvas |
| Height: | cm. 80.00 |
| Width: | cm. 60.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials |
kaolin and canvas squares |
| Height: | cm. 130.50 |
| Width: | cm. 97.60 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials |
kaolin and squared canvas |
| Height: | cm. 130.50 |
| Width: | cm. 97.60 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1959 - 1960| Materials |
canvas sewn in squares |
| Height: | cm. 70.00 |
| Width: | cm. 50.00 |
Piero Manzoni
8 tavole di accertamento - 1958 - 1960| Materials |
paper and ink |
| Height: | cm. 48.80 |
| Width: | cm. 35.00 |
| Edition series number: | 60 |
Piero Manzoni
Linea 15,81 - 1959| Materials | ink on paper, cardboard tube |
| Measurement: | Variable Dimensions |
Piero Manzoni
Tavole d'accertamento Gorgonia - 1961| Materials |
ink on paper, 6 sheets |
| Height: | cm. 15.00 |
| Width: | cm. 14.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1959 - 1960| Materials |
cloth sewn in squares |
| Height: | cm. 70.00 |
| Width: | cm. 50.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials | kaolin and canvas |
| Height: | cm. 110.00 |
| Width: | cm. 150.00 |
Piero Manzoni
white rotor - 1958| Materials | wood,paper,glass,Electricity |
| Height: | cm. 100.50 |
| Width: | cm. 101.00 |
| Depth: | cm. 20.50 |
Piero Manzoni
Corpo d’aria n.28 - 1959 - 1960| Materials | Wooden box containing a rubber |
| Height: | cm. 42.50 |
| Width: | cm. 12.30 |
| Depth: | cm. 4.50 |
Piero Manzoni
Fiato d'artista - 1960| Materials |
ballon, wooden base |
| Height: | cm. 18.00 |
| Width: | cm. 18.00 |
Piero Manzoni
magic base - living sculpture - 1961| Materials |
wood |
| Height: | cm. 60.00 |
| Width: | cm. 79.50 |
| Depth: | cm. 79.50 |
Piero Manzoni
Uova scultura - 1960| Materials |
egg in a wooden box |
| Height: | cm. 6.00 |
| Width: | cm. 8.00 |
| Depth: | cm. 7.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Merda d’artista (n.63) - 1961| Materials |
Tin can and printed paper |
| Height: | cm. 4.80 |
| Width: | cm. 6.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Magisk Sokkel Nr. 2 - 1961| Materials |
wood |
| Height: | cm. 30.00 |
| Width: | cm. 30.00 |
| Depth: | cm. 30.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1960| Materials | wooden basis, brass hook, kaolin |
| Height: | cm. 6.00 |
| Width: | cm. 6.00 |
| Depth: | cm. 10.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1959 - 1960| Materials |
canvas sewen in squares |
| Height: | cm. 146.00 |
| Width: | cm. 114.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials |
kaolin and squared canvas |
| Height: | cm. 100.00 |
| Width: | cm. 80.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1961| Materials | rabbit skin, burnt wooden base |
| Height: | cm. 92.40 |
| Width: | cm. 46.90 |
| Depth: | cm. 46.90 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1961| Materials |
straw and kaolin |
| Height: | cm. 68.30 |
| Width: | cm. 45.80 |
| Depth: | cm. 44.50 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1961 - 1962| Materials |
balls of cotton wool |
| Height: | cm. 20.00 |
| Width: | cm. 25.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Magisk Sockkel nr 2 (base magica) - 1961| Materials |
wood |
| Height: | cm. 30.00 |
| Width: | cm. 30.00 |
| Depth: | cm. 30.00 |
Piero Manzoni
Achrome - 1958 - 1959| Materials |
kaolin and squared canvas |
| Height: | cm. 80.00 |
| Width: | cm. 60.00 |
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