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PIERO MANZONI, Merda d’artista 1961, 2013 [artist’s shit, edition]

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PIERO MANZONI, Merda d’artista 1961, 2013
ca 22 x 8 x 8 cm
tin can number 36, offset wrap, cellophane bag,
seal with finger print in print
edition 100, i.e. complete edition 9000
published by Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milan, Italy
€ 250,- plus € 15,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.PMan 000-pr

The Fondazione Piero Manzoni presents this item as a re-edition. If so, it would be right to point out some particularities that comes with this so called re-issue of canned excrements of Piero Manzoni:
– the label mentions 30 grams netto, in fact this object weighs 250 grams bruto
– it is not likely that the can contains excrements of Piero Manzoni
– the tin comes in a cellophane bag
– the cellophane bag has a seal with the image of a reproduced finger print of the artist

This concerns tin number 36 of which 100 have been produced. The complete edition consists of 90 tins numbered from 1 – 90. The Fondazione Piero Manzoni has made a re-produced edition of 100 of each number. Hence the total edition of 9000 copies.

White chickens
The German Zero artists took the view that Manzoni’s Merda d’artista, canned excrement, was too conceptual; it was ‘an idea’ rather than an attractive, aesthetic work of art. They would prefer to see the can be excluded from the ‘nul’ exhibition, whereupon Manzoni threatened to release white chickens in their room during the opening. After all, chickens are also white and ‘kinetic’, Manzoni argued; they are monochrome and are moving, like many works of the German colleagues.
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, 2022

History of prices:
Studio d”Arte Borromeo, Senago MI, Italy 5 March 2025 € 275
Il Magazino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy January 2025 € 600
Artprice-minor street, France December 2024 € 220
Finarte, Milan, Italy 27 September 2023 € 150 (hammer price)
Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Boetto, Italy 25 August 2023 € 450 (hammer price)
Kunstveiling.nl, Netherlands 18 July 2023 € 125 (hammer price)
Casa d’Aste Capitolium, Brescia, Italy 29 June 2023 € 227
Studio d”Arte Borromeo, Senago MI, Italy 28 August 2023 € 80 (hammer price)
Studio d”Arte Borromeo, Senago MI, Italy 1 April 2023 € 175
Studio d”Arte Borromeo, Senago MI, Italy 5 April 2022 € 90 (hammer price)
LiveAuctioneers, Upper Chichester PA, USA 8 February 2022 € 256 (hammer price)

KIMBALL GUNNAR HOLTH, I have spoken to a banker, 2022 [video film]

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KIMBALL GUNNAR HOLTH, I have spoken to a banker, 2022
video film, tarpaulin with paint stains
edition 10 + 2 AP
signed, numbered, dated
certificate, manual
€ 650,- plus € 24,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.KGH 000-pr

To each numbered and signed copy a tarpaulin with paint stains is added. It was used by the artist to protect the floor of his studio. A manual is describing how to install the video film shown on a flat screen that lies on the tarpaulin, spread out on a floor.

San Diego University, invitations, posters, 1988-1998 [printed matter]

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San Diego University, invitations, posters, 1988-1998
various sizes
14 publications, mostly XL
condition: fine
published by San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
€ 250,- plus € 18,- Track & Trace registered EU mail
inv.SDie 746-pr

List of artists:
– Franz Erhard Walther, May 1990, 23,5 x 61 cm, 3x folded
– Mikolaj Smoczynski, 1991, 63,3 x 45,7 cm, 2x folded
– B. Wurtz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, a.o. in Perspective on Place, 1990, 40,7 x 55,9 cm, 2x folded
– Barbara Ess, Duane Michals, Cindy Sherman, The Starn Twins, a.o. in Apparitions and Allusions, 1986, 61 x 45.7 cm, 3x folded
– Yishai Jusidman, 1996, 43,1 x 50,8 cm 2x folded
– David Bunch, Gavin Lee, Clegg & Guttmann, Catherine Opie, a.o. in Composite Persona, 1997, 17,7 x 60,8 cm, 4x folded
– Judith Hersko, 1998, 23,5 x 71,1 cm, 2x folded
– Francis Alÿs, Jamex & Einar de la Torre and Spring Hurlbut in Reconstructing Ritual, September 1997, 15,2 x 70 cm, 3x folded
– Elizabeth Newman, December 1995, 21,5 x 53 cm, 2x folded
– Paul Kos, May 1991,61 x 44,4 cm, 2x folded
– Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, 1989, 43,2 x 54,4 cm, 2x folded
– Buzz Spector, 1994, 45,7 x 61 cm, 2x folded
– Andrea Zittel, A-Z for You. A-Z for Me, 1998, 16 x 69,8 cm, 4x folded + sleeve, orange sticker, 12 x 51,5 cm (3x folded)
– Noriyuki Haraguchi, April 1988, 60,8 x 44 cm, 2x folded

A collection of 12 posters and 2 brochures put in a home-made light weight box.

R.W. VAN DE WINT, label met handtekening, 1988 [signature on label]

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R.W. VAN DE WINT, label met handtekening, 1988
3,6 x 7,5 cm
ink, pencil, sticker, verso petrified glue
p.o.r.
inv.RvdW 871-pr

The three felt pen stripes on the right side of the sticker correspond to three stripes on the backside of a wooden frame holding a pastel drawing. It was meant to indicate that the data on this sticker relates to that specific drawing. It functioned as a kind of seal for the black and white drawing (84,5 x 98 cm) with a title ‘Uit de Serie Het Oog’ dated 1988.