Sculpture
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Piero Manzoni
Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic conceptual art . Influenced by the work of Yves Klein , his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa , 1967. [ 1 ] Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values". [ 2 ]