Piero Manzoni. Recent Paths. A City for Art

At the Sala delle Cariatidi (Room of the Caryatids) of Palazzo Reale, the Council of Milan - Culture and Entertainment Dept., in cooperation with the Mudima and the Antonio Mazzotta Foundations, presents to the public a wide retrospective of Piero Manzoni with about 110 works and around a hundred documents: from the pictorial canvases of the early Fifties to the last conceptual works with 'merde d'artista/artist's shits' of 1961. The exhibition documents the entire artistic career of Piero Manzoni, from the first early phase of the pictorial canvases (Veduta di Savona/View of Savona), to the oil compositions made between the end of 1955 and the beginning of 1956, where anthropomorphic figures are represented, where the matter of figures becomes more and more slick and remote, to the works made by tar on canvas, up to the first achromes/achromatic pieces of 1957, white canvases creased horizontally