Coosje Kapteyn & W.A.L. Beeren - Piero Manzoni

Coosje Kapteyn & W.A.L. Beeren - Piero Manzoni - Amsterdam - Stedelijk Museum - 1970 - 1st edition - [24] pp - Stapled wrappers - 21 x 27,5 cm. - Design: Wim Crouwel & Jolijn van de Wouw (Total Design).

Condition: Good - with wear and browning.

Catalogue for an exhibition (also at Van Abbe and two German museums) about the Italian avant-garde artist Piero Manzoni (1933-1963). Illustrated with black and white photos. With bibliography, list of manifestos and exhibitions. Catalogusnummer 474.

¶ Cf. Wolters #1198; Huygen p.280. With text of the opening speech by Henk Peeters (the Dutch zero artist was one of the living people who were signed by Manzoni and declared a work of art). Also includes photo of Manzoni's 'Artist's shit' from 1960, in which the artist filled 90 cans with 30 grams of his own excrements. In 2007, one of the cans was auctioned at Sotheby's for 120,000 euros.