Piero Manzoni
Stimuli at Witte de With, Rotterdam (1999-2000)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Sep 00
...Piero Manzoni, Matt Mullican, Bruce Nauman, Lou Reed, Nasrin Tabatabai, Fiona Tan, Koen Timmermans, Ulay, and Elina Montesinos. Overall, the works provided crisscrossing discourses across medium, approach, and the thematic thread addressing “various levels of consciousness, including...
Performance Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Performance Art (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Performance Art Performance Art is an extremely broad category of contemporary art encompassing a variety of activities and behaviours, different styles and aesthetic intentions,...
Nouvelle Tendance / New Tendency (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92
...Piero Manzoni (who died in 1962 and 1963 respectively) and opposed the loose painterly styles of abstract expressionism and tachisme. They banded together into groups in order to produce collective or. anonymous work, to exploit new materials and techniques, and to explore the use of light,...
Monochromatic Painting / Monotonal Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92
...Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Ad Reinhardt, William Turnbull, Bob Law and Marcia Hafif. Monochromatic canvases can be regarded as extreme instances of the reductivist aesthetic. Perhaps the most famous series was that...
Living Sculpture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 11 Jun 92
...Piero Manzoni signed nude models and also declared his friends to be works of art. The trajectory of Manzoni’s career was towards a total identification of his body, its processes and waste products, with art. In 1962, during the Fluxus-inspired “Festival of Misfits” held in London, the French...
Conceptual Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Piero Manzoni and Jasper Johns, all of whom raised questions about the ontological status of the art object. Conceptual Art was in part a critique of earlier forms of art and the art market, in part an enquiry into the nature of art, and in part the forwarding of concepts or propositions as...
Body Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 02 Jun 92
...Piero Manzoni. Since Body Art performances were transitory, photography, film and videotape became important in terms of documentation. Some works were planned as interactions between the artist and the recording medium. Given the difficulties of mounting a survey of Body Art, it was only in...
