Why it matters
Ninety tin cans, each labelled in four languages as containing 30 grams of the artist's excrement, 'freshly preserved' in May 1961. Manzoni's anti-artwork mocks the art market's hunger for the personal touch of the artist.
Did you know?
- Manzoni also sold balloons filled with his own breath, Artist's Breath.
- Each can measures 4.8 by 6.5 centimetres.
- His friend Enrico Baj called the cans 'an act of defiant mockery of the art world'.
Based on the Wikipedia article Artist's Shit (CC BY-SA 4.0).
