Artist: Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Conceptual Art
Media: Conceptual Art, Painting
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Biography:
Piero Manzoni began painting in a traditional style and focused mainly on landscape. In 1956, he took a drastic turn towards abstraction and began producing his Achromes series. These paintings were white and textured pieces that owed their influence to Burri and Klein. After 1959, Manzoni’s work began more experimental and provocative. He is considered to be one of the inspirations for Art Povera and Conceptual art. He died at the age of thirty from cirrhosis.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (42)
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Piero Manzoni - Achrome 1962 fiberglass on velvet The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Piero Manzoni - Line 1000 Meters Long 1961 chrome-plated metal The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Portrait of a Woman Piero del Pollaiuolo (Piero di Jacopo Benci) (Italian, Florentine, born about
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The Young Saint John the Baptist Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine, 1462-1522)Tempera
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The Return from the Hunt, ca. 1505–7 Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine,
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A Hunting Scene Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo) (Italian, Florentine, 1462-1522)Tempera and oil transferred
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Bronzino - Portrait of Piero de' Medici ('The Gouty') 1550-1570 oil on wood The National Gallery, London Italian
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Adam; Eve Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini (Italian, Florentine, 1475-1554)Oil on canvas; Each 26
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Filippo Baldinucci Title page vignette in the book Cominciamento e progresso dell' arte dell' intagliare in rame äby Filippo Baldinucci (Florence: Piero Matini, 1686) engraving 1686
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Filippo Baldinucci Cominciamento e progresso dell' arte dell' intagliare in rame äby Filippo Baldinucci (Florence: Piero Matini, 1686) Book with engraved title page vignette and uncounted pages with woodcut ornamentation 1686
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Piero Dorazio jnd (just noticeable difference) Aquatint in three colors 1964
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Piero di Cosimo - Allegory c. 1500 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Piero della Francesca - The Crucifixion n.d. tempera on panel The Frick Collection Italian
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Lorenzo di Piero di Giovanni Vecchietta - The Resurrection 1472 bronze relief The Frick Collection Italian
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Piero della Francesca - St. John the Evangelist 1454-69 tempera on panel The Frick Collection Italian
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Lorenzo (Piero di Giovanni) Monaco - Virgin Annunciate c. 1410-1415 Tempera and gold lea Norton Simon Museum Italian
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David, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Abraham, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Noah, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Moses, ca. 1408-10 Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, active 1390-1423)Tempera on wood, gold
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Piero di Cosimo - Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels c. 1520 oil on wood panel Philbrook Museum of Art Italian
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Piero di Cosimo - Madonna with Child and the Young St. John c. 1505-1510 oil on panel Liechtenstein Museum Italian
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Piero di Cosimo - The Nativity with the Infant Saint John c. 1500 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, early 15th century Attributed to Lorenzo Monaco (Piero
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Two-Handled "Oak-Leaf" Drug Jar
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Lorenzo de Caro, Italian, mid–18th century The Triumph of David Oil on canvas 67.31 x
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Imitator of Piero della Francesca, Italian (Florentine), active in 1439–died in 1492 Portrait of a
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Piero di Cosimo - The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot c. 1490 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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The Triumph of Fame; (verso) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici
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View of Pisa
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and an Angel Mariotto di
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Zanobi di Jacopo di Piero Machiavelli, Italian (Florentine), 1418-1479 Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints
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Andrea del Sarto Beheading of St. John the Baptist and presentation of his head ink and wash circa 1600
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Madonna and Child, ca. 1485 Filippino Lippi (Italian, Florentine, probably born 1457, died 1504)Tempera, oil,
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The Holy Family with Angels, possibly ca. 1700 Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, Venetian, 1659-1734)Oil on canvas;
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist, ca. 1510-15 Giuliano
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Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, ca. 1497 Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo
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Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490) and His Son Teodoro, ca. 1487? Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico di Tommaso Curradi
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The Birth of the Virgin, 1467 Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) (Italian, Marchigian, active
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Donato Creti, Italian (Bolognese), 1671-1749 The Cumaean Sibyl about 1730 Oil on canvas 43.8 x
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Taddeo in House of Calabrese
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The Mountain, 1937 Balthus (French, 1908 - 2001)Oil on canvas; H. 98, W. 144 in.

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
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Kettle's Yard Gallery: Enrico Castellani Work from 1958 – 1970
In 1959, Castellani produced the first of his structured surfaces by putting nuts behind the canvas to form reliefs in order to emphasise the physicality of the surface as well as the dynamism of space. He went on to develop the technique that ...
Juan Miro Foundation: Irony: Works by Over 30 Artists Dealing with the Subject of Irony
The exhibition consists of video projections, installations, photographs and sculptures by Francis Alÿs, Ibon Aramberri, Marcel Broodthaers, Joan Brossa, Maurizio Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Christian Jancowsky, Jeff Koons, Zbigniew Libera, Javier Long...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video
This exhibition is an attempt, in several sections, to keep track of the history and the transformations of the medium. It starts out with photographic pieces from the 19th century that still tried to translate ...
Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art: The Happy Face of Globalization
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works in ceramics produced by ...
Haines Gallery: Multiple Personalities: An Onsite / Online Group Exhibition of Artist Multiples and Editions
Multiple Personalities comments on the history of the multiple and addresses the reasons behind this art form's development over time. Simply, a multiple can be defined as an art object that is produced in a quantity of more than one copy. Howe...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Fondazione Prada: Enrico Castellani
Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the artist and contains about seventy works from public and private collections both in Italy and abroad. The exhibition is designed to offer an in-depth account of...
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Arts: Stimuli
Stimuli explores in a number of modern classics and contemporary works the physical experience of visual arts on the basis of this hallucinatory experience. With ...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
"This exhibition provides a unique and rare opportunity to see some of the most remarkable international artshakers in the world, artists who are highly influential and work with ideas of communication through giving," says AGH Chief Curator Sh...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Cafe Gallery Project: Reap: 19 artists, 30 installations, 365 days
Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Lucy Baldwyn, David Chapman, Marcus Coates, Rachel Cohen, Holly Darton, Gail Dickerson, Graham Fagen, Brian Gilson, Illur Malus Islandus, Meg Mosley, Miyako Narita, Lucille Power, Emily Richardson, Harald Smykla, Eden Sol...

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