Carnegie winner reveals her secret: rat pee Jun 27, 2008
Andy Warhol made works using his own urine; Piero Manzoni famously canned his faeces for the sake of art; Chris Ofili has used elephant dung in his paintings. And now Emily Gravett, who yesterday won the UK's most prestigious children's illustration award, has revealed that her winning book was produced with the aid of rats' urine. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Auctions: Bacon triptych auctioned for record $86 million May 15, 2008
Only 10 of the 83 works failed to sell, and 18 artist records were set for names ranging from Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni to Tom Wesselmann and Takashi Murakami. By far the most exciting moment of the evening was when "Triptych," Bacon's comment on his own angst a vast (each of the three panels measures about 6 feet by 5 feet) and densely painted allegorical painting came up for sale. (International Herald Tribune)
Bacon painting sets postwar auction record May 15, 2008
Tom Wesselmann, Lee Krasner, Brice Marden, Piero Manzoni and Takashi Murakami set records as well, with Murakami obliterating his old mark of $2. 7-million as My Lonesome Cowboy fetched a whopping $15. (Globe and Mail)
$86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's May 15, 2008
Three lots later, it was the turn of a work done in 1958 by Piero Manzoni to rise to world record heights. At $10. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Opinion: The trouble with Western art today Dec 19, 2007
In 1961, Piero Manzoni sold cans of his own excrement labeled "Merda d'artista" as art. In the 1980s, Jeff Koons, commodity broker-turned-wunderkind artist, displayed "Equilibrium," three basketballs floating in tanks of distilled water. (Christian Science Monitor)
Gallery exhibits slabs of human poo Dec 14, 2007
In 1961, Italian Piero Manzoni produced 90 cans of Artists (Poo), each labeled as containing one ounce of freshly preserved material. In 1999, British artist Chris Ofilis rendition of the Virgin Mary on a canvas spattered with elephant dung brought protest when it went on display with other sensational works at The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. (MSNBC -- News)
Infotainment Oct 21, 2007
In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then. The teenage son of actress Hunter Tylo, who once won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the late TV mogul Aaron Spelling after she was fired for being pregnant, has drowned in his mothers swimming pool. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Could you all please relax? Oct 1, 2007
All this talk makes me think of a truly wonderful and inspired piece of art by the late artist Piero Manzoni, of shitting-in-a-tin-can fame - and the cans of shit are still going strong in the preservation stakes, but then we knew canning was a good (but not perfect) form of preservation, didn't we. Titled Artist's Breath (1960), it's a balloon filled with the artist's breath; he simply blew up a balloon and fastened it to a wooden base and signed it and called it Artist's Breath - genius. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bacon, Freud Joined Top Artists in Sales That Made $883 Million Jun 26, 2007
Contemporary artists who set records included Kara Walker, Thomas Schutte, Christopher Wool, a favorite of hedge-fund managers, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana and Yue Minjun. New highs also were reached for earlier artists such as Joan Miro, Natalia Goncharova and Auguste Rodin. (Bloomberg)
And it was all yellow Jun 8, 2007
His white paintings, from the late 1950s, are the equals of Robert Ryman and Piero Manzoni ... With others - Yves Klein, Blinky Palermo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Piero Manzoni - there is somehow a sense of completion within what they did. (Guardian Unlimited)
Sotheby's contemporary art sale reaches $125.1 million Nov 16, 2006
Lot 7, "Achrome," done in kaolin on squared and folded canvas, was executed by Piero Manzoni in 1959. As the title implies, it is an essay on the nuances of white offset by folding. (International Herald Tribune)
Sotheby's May Pass $1B Mark With Nov. Sales Oct 24, 2006
Art experts say collectors are eager to grab Bacon's six-foot tall painting and other hard-to-find works in the prized Vanthournout Collection, including pieces by Piero Manzoni, Josef Albers and sculptor Gerhard Richter. Parts of the collection, built over four decades by Belgian collector Roger Vanthournout, are being sold by his widow Josette. (New York Post -- Business)
What's coming up in arts & culture. Oct 21, 2006
The exhibition includes works by Giovanni Anselmo, Piero Manzoni and Dadamaino. Art and love. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Events calendar Oct 3, 2006
swissinfo - Travel through Switzerland. Tourism in Swiss regions. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Tate's snub of Beryl opens a can of, er … Sep 26, 2006
Four years ago the Tate paid 22,300 ($56,000) at Sotheby's for 30 grams of canned faeces of the Italian artist Piero Manzoni ... Spalding said: "I am furious and sad. It is just ridiculous that the Tate ignores Beryl but can spend 23,000 on a can of Piero Manzoni's shit. The world seems upside down.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
