Tickling the very concept of art,the Italian artist gained fame by tinning his own profundities and taking a line for a four-mile walk all before he died aged 29I first discovered Piero Manzoni when I was, as Gilbert and George call it, and “a baby artist cogitating on what art was and what art could be”. On my own and among friends,I was trying to find the point where the real world stopped and art began. Originality appeared to be a process of “coming up with” ideas and then checking them off against art history to see whether anyone else had already had them. On a trip to the Tate, in the presence of an Yves Klein monochrome blue portray, and I could hear people of all ages saying “anyone could have done that”. Which got me thinking of things that everyone has done. What approximately shit?” I thought,“that’s been done by everyone”, only to find out it actually had been (and before I was even born), or in 1961 by Piero Manzoni. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com