Piero Manzoni

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Description

Piero Manzoni
ACHROME
kaolin on canvas
74 by 94cm.
29 1/8 by 37in.
Executed in 1958.

Provenance

Manzoni Collection, Milan
Studio Brescia Arte Contemporanea, Brescia

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Piero Manzoni, 1971, no. 21

Literature

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

Catalogue Note

"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)