pub. on Mar 12, 2008
 
Merda d'artista (or Piero Manzoni uncanned)
In May 1961, the italian artist Piero Manzoni collected his own feces in 90 numbered cans, which contain 30 grams of feces each.
He labelled them as "100% pure artist's shit" in Italian, English, French, and German, and sold them for the price of their weight in gold.
Their current estimated value stands at approximately € 30,500 (around US$47,000). On May 23 2007, an exemplar has been sold for € 124,000 at Sotheby's.
Like Duchamp's readymades, "Merda d'artista" questions the meaning of art as both cultural and consumer objects by inviting the viewer to confront a system that venerates cans of shit as works of art.
From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit
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