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De : R.Gancie/C.Parcelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Envoy� : vendredi 23 juin 2000 00:51
Objet : Re: FLUXLIST: Breton removed?
> > One particularly
> > memorable piece from that show was the French guy who canned his own
feces
> > and sold it as "artist's shit," with the price fixed to the price of
gold.
>
> Manzoni, I think, perhaps Piero Manzoni? I found a website of the cans
> that included some discussion on the difficulties such artwork poses for
> the museum curator. But Manzoni's a conceptual artist, so who knows?
> Maybe the cans are filled with conceptual waste. But I believe the cans
> are in some museums... -rosalie
Yes it's Manzoni -Italian not French- and yes the Artist shit cans are in
museum-at least in France- and we even have someone here, an artist -a great
one, Bernard Bazille- that made some renwed pascalian bet upon this can,
bought one, and decided to open it as a work of action art.
The point to him was:
either there is shit, and even though those works are vangard fetishes,
Manzoni as an artist is a shit, unable to transmogrify shit into gold
either there is nothing in the can, so Manzoni is a thief, a hook, a liar, a
buglar but not an artist.
Either there is something else, and Manzoni is a genius, to have think that
someone may open the can some day to KNOW.
The whole thing, the bet, the closed can and the texts surrounding the
performance was exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Marseille,
and then, Bazille opened the box in public.
And there is another can, anonymous inside it.
Which means that Manzoni knew someone would open the can someday, not only
to know, but to break the double taboo of the shit and of the art fetish -a
bit like the Erased de Kooning of Rauschenberg.
but it's still a fetish. More, it is a stronger fetish, because this
happening has removed the whole comprehension of Manzoni art, and has
confirmed its incredible deepness.
