THE STORY OF THE FOUNDATION

2023 90th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH (1933) AND 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH (1963) OF PIERO MANZONI

The numerous events staged in 2023 got underway with the international conference devoted to Merda d’artista held at the University of Verona in March and curated by Luca Bochicchio and Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo. Numerous experts were invited to investigate various aspects, artistic and otherwise, of the iconic can, which for the occasion was also the object of physical-chemical analyses by the Department of Physics of the University of Milan. During the course of 2024 the conference papers were due to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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Talk Piero Manzoni 1963-2023, Museo del Novecento, February 6th, 2023

The speakers at the talk at the Museo del Novecento together with director Gianfranco Maraniello: Elena Manzoni di Chiosca, Flaminio Gualdoni, Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo, Luca Bochicchio e Alessandro Castellano

 

Poster for the International Conference in Verona on Merda d’artista (Artist’s Shit)

Elena Manzoni di Chiosca and Luca Bochicchio with some students of the University of Verona

Curators and Lecturers’ interventions during the Conference