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“I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The fingerprint is the only sign of personality that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there’s the artist’s own shit. That is really his.” —Piero Manzoni
Piero Manzoni was born on July 13, 1933, and died on February 6, 1963.
At a time when questions of authenticity, authorship, and ownership are dominating discussions in our digital age, it is instructive to take a look back at Manzoni’s own reasons for putting his crap in cans and selling it. Like an elementary school science class dissecting owl pellets, The Transgressives is not afraid to dig around in Manzoni’s shit.
