Piero Manzoni

I surfed a mapcap today, an Italian Piero Manzoni.

Super amusing by one of installations: Socle du Monde (Base of the World - Homage to Galileo).

By subtitling his work an homage to Galileo, Manzoni was slyly making the absurd proclamation that the entire earth is a sculpture. It's an innovative way to see the world, just like I can say that the world is under my feet.

The world can be simple, at times.

His other works:

• the Lines - single line drawings on paper, placed in sealed cardboard tubes, labelled and signed by the artist (the longest one had been executed on July 4 1960, at Hernig, Denmark, on a 7200m roll of newsprint)
  


• the Bodies of Air ("Corpi d'aria") and
  


• the Artist's breath ("Fiato d'artista") pneumatic sculptures filled with Manzoni's breath
  


• the Sculpture Eggs, authenticated by the artist's thumbprint
  


• the Magic Bases, pedestals that transform people standing on them into works of art
  


• one of his more famous manifestations: the Consumption of dynamic art by the art-devouring public ("Consumazione dell'arte dinamica del pubblico divorare l'arte"). Manzoni marked with his thumbprint some hard-cooked eggs and offered them to the visitors, who were thus invited to "devour" art.
  


• In 1961, Piero Manzoni certificated his first human beings with his signature in order to create Living Sculptures.
  


• In the same year he carried through his most shocking gesture: he offered for sale at the then-current price of gold, ninety cans of Artist's Shit, each with a net weight of thirty grams.
  

This guy was interesting. ^_^