The exhibition organized by the Madre Museum of Naples is the most comprehensive retrospective of Piero Manzoni ever produced, with over 200 exhibits, photographs, videos, magazines and manuscripts.
Curated by Germano Celant, it offers the opportunity to retrace the creative adventure of Manzoni through the different stages of his brief but intense career: from the beginning of 1956 to 1963, the year of his untimely death, allowing you to further discuss the scope of its innovative proposal, which has made him one of the protagonists of the Twentieth Century.
Following an original methodology for a retrospective exhibition, the exhibition is spread over two narrative segments dialoguing with each other: the first aims to reconstruct the internal logic of the artist’s personal research and the second to put his work in art-historical context age through a network of visual relationships and highlight influences and diversity, make comparisons and connections between the works by Manzoni and those of artists who have stimulated his investigation, such as Jean Fautrier, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein; which he shared with the purposes and intentions of research, and contemporaries such as Enrico Baj, Enrico Castellani and Gianni Colombo, Heinz Mack and Jan Schoonhoven, or, finally, have followed research in some way related or similar outcomes in formal or conceptual, as Savior Scarpitta, Francesco Lo Savio, Cy Twombly, Günther Uecker, Mario Schifano and Giulio Paolini.