{"title":"Piero Manzoni","description":"\u003cp\u003ePiero Manzoni (1933–1963) was an Italian artist whose brief career produced some of the most radical propositions in post-war European art. Working in Milan and across Europe, Manzoni systematically tested the limits of artistic authorship, authenticity, and the artwork's relationship to the body, the market, and the document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis practice encompassed the \u003cem\u003eAchromes\u003c\/em\u003e (white monochrome surfaces made from kaolin, canvas, and other materials), \u003cem\u003eArtist's Breath\u003c\/em\u003e (1960, balloons inflated by the artist), \u003cem\u003eArtist's Shit\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eMerda d'artista\u003c\/em\u003e, 1961, ninety numbered tins), and \u003cem\u003eBodies of Air\u003c\/em\u003e. His \u003cem\u003eCertificates of Authenticity\u003c\/em\u003e designated living people as artworks, anticipating later conceptual and performance practices. He died in Milan in 1963, aged 29.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here include exhibition catalogues and printed matter relating to Manzoni's practice. Original and period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-deed-certificates-of-authenticity-in-art-hapgood-lauf-roma-publications-2011","title":"In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, ed. Hapgood \u0026 Lauf, ROMA Publications, 2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover. 104 pages, 19 × 27 cm. Published by ROMA Publications \/ De Vleeshal, 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear, minor surface marks, softened corners, and gentle age-related wear consistent with storage and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in conjunction with the travelling exhibition \u003cem\u003eIn Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art\u003c\/em\u003e, this volume gathers artists for whom the certificate, instruction, contract, receipt, signature, declaration, and administrative document become inseparable from the artwork itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, George Brecht, Dan Flavin, Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Adrian Piper, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yoko Ono, Robert Barry, Seth Siegelaub, Carey Young, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Maria Eichhorn, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book describes works that depend on documents for their status. A certificate authorizes an object, replaces an object, transfers an object, or becomes the object. Authorship and ownership appear through paper, signature, instruction, edition, and record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, the publication enters a related chain. It documents certificates while becoming another document of transfer: retained, priced, described, and placed back into circulation. The catalogue does not only explain the movement of artworks through administrative forms; it now participates in that movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA key title on conceptual art, dematerialized practice, and the legal and poetic life of the artwork after production. Increasingly elusive in the trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROMA Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53625786433874,"sku":"HAPGOOD-LAUF-ROMAPUB-CAT-2011","price":300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Lauf_Cornelia_Hapgood_Susan._In_Deed_Certificates_of_Authenticity_in_Art._2011_cover.jpg?v=1780391892"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/piero-manzoni.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}