| Materials |
sewn cloth |
| Height: | cm. 103.30 |
| Width: | cm. 78.00 |
Piero Manzoni
10.05.07 | 24.09.07
![Piero Manzoni, Senza titolo [Untitled]](http://mm.fondazionedonnaregina.it/foto/box_80/opera172_museo_madre.jpg) Senza titolo [Untitled]1957  Frog pond1957  untitled1957  Achrome1960 - 1961  Achrome1958 - 1959 ![Piero Manzoni, Merda d'artista [Artist's Shit]](http://mm.fondazionedonnaregina.it/foto/box_80/opera259_museo_madre.jpg) Merda d'artista [Artist's Shit]1961  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1959  Achrome1961 - 1962  Achrome1961 - 1962  Achrome1962  Achrome1962  Achrome1958  Achrome1962  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1962  le cose1956  Untitled1956  Untitled1956  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1957 - 1958  Achrome1958  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1961 - 1962  Achrome1960  Achrome1959 - 1960  Untitled1957  8 tavole di accertamento1958 - 1960  sculpure egg1960  sculpture egg1960  Linea 15,811959  Tavole d'accertamento Gorgonia1961  Achrome1959 - 1960  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1961 - 1962  white rotor1958  Corpo d’aria n.281959 - 1960  Fiato d'artista1960  Achrome1962  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1961 - 1962  magic base - living sculpture1961  Uova scultura1960  Achrome1957 - 1958  Achrome1961  Merda d’artista (n.63)1961  Magisk Sokkel Nr. 21961  Achrome1960  Achrome1958  Achrome1959 - 1960  Achrome1961  Achrome1958  Achrome1958 - 1959  line mt 11401961  Linea di lunghezza infinita1960  Achrome1961  Achrome1962  Linea m 72001960  Achome1957 - 1958  Achrome1957 - 1958  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1961  Achrome1961 - 1962  Achrome1961 - 1962  Achrome1962  Achrome1962  Achrome1961  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1959  Achrome1962  Achrome1959  Achrome1958 - 1959  Achrome1961  Achrome1962  Achrome1962  Magisk Sockkel nr 2 (base magica)
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Piero Manzoni
Achrome
1960 - 1961
Courtesy :
Archivio Opera Piero Manzoni, Milano
On display from 2007 to 2012 (February)
The term a-chrome (literally meaning “colorless”) was chosen by Manzoni to designate a cycle of works conceived in the autumn of 1957 and they continued to be part and parcel
of his development down to 1963, the year of his death. The first Achromes were white canvases soaked in kaolin (the white clay used in making china). The creation of the image
was simply entrusted to the form taken by the material as it set and not the artist’s intervention. In other words, the artist allowed the work to develop on its own, emerging directly from the intrinsic vitality of the material used. Manzoni considered the painting as a surface with an endless potential for creating images, regardless of considerations of the content, composition or dimensions. For this reason he stripped the painting of any external interference, extraneous to the pictorial surface, and opted for a plain, almost featureless texture and a material lacking in tears or stratifications. In this way he eliminated references to any social or personal drama, with the work evoking only its obvious, self-signifying presence. From 1960 on, in an intense experimentation with both natural and artificial materials, the Achromes explored multiple formulations over the years, even acquiring a three-dimensional value.
Manzoni was born in Soncino, in the province of Cremona, on July 13th 1933, of counts Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca and Poggiolo. He studied in Milan at the Leone XIII classical ...
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