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Friday, February 22, 2008
The Artist's Shit, Breath & Blood.

Piero Manzoni

Merda d'artisa

The ninety cans of "Merda d'artisa" ("Artist's Shit, content 30 gr., freshly preserved, produced and tinned in May 1961"), were first exhibited in the Galleria Pescetto (Albisola Marina) on 12 August 1961.
Manzoni calculated the value of the ninety cans - all numbered, each with a net weight of thirty grams - in accordance with the daily exchange rates for gold.



The series of Artist's Shit (sold at the then-current price of gold), the Artist's Breath ("Fiato d'artista", balloons filled with Manzoni's breath) and the only planned containers of Artist's Blood ("Sangue d'artista") are the results of a process of expropriation and regeneration of the artist's corporeality. 

Manzoni's main innovation to this topic is a reflection on the role of the artist's body in contemporary art.  The artist find a place of discharge for the projection of his person, replacing, with his own body, the painting and the sculpture. Manzoni offers his own body as an artwork, and the vestiges of the transfigured body become precious relics.