Artist's Shit No. 014

Piero Manzoni · May 1961

Here we have Artist's Shit No. 014 — a sculpture by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni, May nineteen sixty-one. It's metal, paper, and “artist’s shit”, about 1.1 by 1.1 meters. Manzoni was part of the Arte Povera movement.

Medium Metal, paper, and “artist’s shit” · Dimensions 1 7/8" (4.8 cm) x 2 1/2" (6.5 cm) in diameter · Credit Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder

Hanging beside it in Gallery 408: Pastry Case, I, Tomahawk Nolan

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Last Supper, Gorgona no. 8, Come on the Telephone, Colombia, DEC. 17, 1979, DEC. 18, 1979