Tag Archives: Piero Manzoni

July 13

Piero Manzoni: Scatology and Art

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On the 13th of July 1933, Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni was born in Soncino Cremona, Italy. Called, by some, the enfant prodige of Italian art in the late 1950s and early 60s, Manzoni became most famous for a series of artworks that dealt with the presence of the artist’s character and physiology in art. […]

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January 02

Painting the Date with On Kawara

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On the 2nd of January 1933, Kawara On was born in Kariya, Aichi, Japan. The artist has become well-known as a conceptual artist living in New York since 1965, having shown his work in solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976 and present in numerous private collections. In 1966, he inaugurated the Today […]

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