Artist's Breath
Piero Manzoni
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Date:1960 -
Style:Conceptual Art -
Genre:installation
Artist's Breath
Piero Manzoni
Contemporaneously with the Bodies of Air, Manzoni produced the Artist's Breaths (Fiato d'Artista), a series of red, white or blue balloons, inflated and attached to a wooden base inscribed "Piero Manzoni- Artist's Breath". The works continued Manzoni's obsession with the limits of physicality, whilst parodying the Art World's obsession with permanence, and also provided a poignant Memento Mori.
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