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1933
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Born in Soncino, Italy
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1951
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Enrolled at the Accademia di Brera to study law, Milan, Italy
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1953
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Began private lessons in painting
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1950 - 1954
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Focused on conventional landscapes and portraits
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1954
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Changed studies at Acadamia di Brera from law to art and philosophy at first in Rome and later in Milan, but drops out
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1954
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Began experimenting with oils, plaster of Paris and enamel
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1951 - 1955
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Turned to making works with impressions left by keys, scissors, etc., which had been dipped in tar
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1957
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Manzoni and Fontana joined the group Gruppo Nucleare
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1957
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With the influence of Yves Klein, Manzoni began to make white paintings which he called Achromes
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1957
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First one-man exhibition in the foyer of the Teatro delle Maschere, Milan, Italy
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1961
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Manzoni began signing living bodies, which he proceeds to certify as works of art
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1961 - 1962
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Traveled to Germany, Yugoslavia, Belgium and the Netherlands
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1963
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Diesd in his studio in the Via Fiori Chiari, Milan, Italy
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Manzoni: Azimut, Gagosian, London, UK |
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2009 |
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Piero Manzoni: A Retrospective, Gagosian, New York, USA |
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2007 |
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L’immagine del vuoto, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Italy |
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2007 |
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Piero Manzoni e Albisola, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy |
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2006 |
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La Scultura Italiana del XX secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Italy |
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2006 |
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Zero, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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2006 |
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Il modo Italiano, The Montreal Museum of fine Arts, Montreal, Canada |
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2005 |
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Beyond Painting, Tate Modern, London, UK |
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2005 |
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When humor becomes painful, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland |
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2004 |
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Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA |
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2003 |
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3 x Monochrom. Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Pino Pinelli, Kreissparkasse, Rottweil, Germany |
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2002 |
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Themes and Variations.Post-war Art from the Guggenheim Collections, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia, Italy |
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2002 |
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De Gustibus, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy |
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2001 |
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Ironia, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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2000 |
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Against Nature: Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA |
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1998 |
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Piero Manzoni, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK |
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1996 |
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La metamorfosi del corpo. Arte Italiana da De Chirico a Manzoni, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy |
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1995 |
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Piero Manzoni: Line Drawings, The Musum of contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA |
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1994 - 1995 |
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The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York,USA |
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1992 |
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Joseph Beuys, Piero Manzoni, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Akira Ikeda gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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1991 |
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Piero Manzoni, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France |
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1989 |
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Italian Art in the 20th century, Royal academy of Arts, London, UK |
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1988 |
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Zero, un movimento europeo. Collección Lenz Schönberg, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain |
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1987 |
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Grande Circo: 1973-1997. 15 anni di arte italiana alle fiere europee, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy |
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1986 |
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Piero Manzoni. Disegni inediti 1960, Sala del consiglio, Perugia, Italy |
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1985 |
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Azimuth & Azimut, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy |
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1983 |
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L’Informale in Italia, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy |
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1979 - 1980 |
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Zero Internationaal Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, Belgium |
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1977 |
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Piero Manzoni, Centro Culturale Anconadue, Milano, Italy |
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1974 |
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Piero Manzoni. Paintings, Reliefs & Objects, The Tate Gallery, London, UK |
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1972 |
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Piero Manzoni; De Europa; Operazione Vesuvio, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA |
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1963 |
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Piero Manzoni, Galerie Smith, Brussels, Belgium |
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1963 |
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Zero, der neue Idealismus, Galerie Diogenes, Berlin, Germany |
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1962 |
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Gruppo Zero, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1961 |
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Manzoni, Castellani, Castellani, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy |
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1960 |
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A new artistic conception, New Vision Centre, London, England |
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1959 |
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Bonalumi, Castellani, Manzoni, Bonalumi, Castel, Galerie Kasper, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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1959 |
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Piero Manzoni: Rilievi, Galerie De Posthoorn, The Hague, The Netherlands |
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1959 |
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Piero Manzoni, Galleria La Parete, Milan, Italy |
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1958 |
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Piero Manzoni, Galleria Pater, Milan, Italy |
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1958 |
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Piero Manzoni, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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1958 |
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Fontana, Baj, Manzoni, Fontana, Baj, Galleria Bergamo, Bergamo & Circulo di Cultura, Bologna, Italy |
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1957 |
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Manzoni, Verga, Sordini, Verga, Sordini, Galleria Pater, Milan, Italy |
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1957 |
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Piero Manzoni, Foyer del Teatro delle Maschere, Milan, Italy |
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Links to further information |
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