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.

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.

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.

Artist's Shit. Artist's Shit (Italian: Merda d'artista) is a 1961 anti-artwork by an Italian, Piero Manzoni.The work consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams (1.1 oz) of feces, and measuring 4.8 by 6.5 centimetres (1.9 in × 2.6 in), with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating: . Artist's Shit Contents 30 gr net ...

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. A self-taught painter, his work heavily featured anthropomorphic silhouettes and the impressions of …

Piero Manzoni was born Count Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo on July 13, 1933, in Soncino, Italy. Self-taught, he started his artistic career as a painter, making gestural, abstract works.