Lot 20 : f - PIERO MANZONI
Auction Location: United Kingdom - 2004
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Title:
ACHROME
Date:
1933-1963
Description:
kaolin on canvas
Executed in 1958.
Dimensions:
74 by 94cm.
29 1/8 by 37in.
Provenance:
Manzoni Collection, Milan
Studio Brescia Arte Contemporanea, Brescia
Exhibited:
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Piero Manzoni, 1971, no. 21
Published:
Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni Catalogo Generale, Milan 1975, p. 138, no. 58 cg, illustrated
Freddy Batino & Luca Palazzoli, Piero Manzoni Catalogue Raisonné, Milan 1991, p. 277, no. 359 BM, illustrated
Notes:
"The question as far as I'm concerned is that of rendering a surface completely white (integrally colourless and neutral) far beyond any pictorial phenomenon or any intervention extraneous to the value of the surface. A white that is not a polar landscape, not a material in evolution or a beautiful material, not a sensation or a symbol or anything else. Better than that: a surface that simply is: to be." (Piero Manzoni, Free Dimension published in Azimuth, Milan 1960)
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