Piero Manzoni
UOVO
Self-published, 1960
6.7 x 8.2 x 5.70 cm.
Edition of 54 signed, dated and numbered copies
Uova sculptura (Egg Sculpture) are works consisting of hard-boiled eggs on which Manzoni left his fingerprint as a signature. The addition of the fingerprint ‘consecrates’ them, he wrote.
They were first presented at Galerie Arthur Køpcke in Copenhagen, in June of 1960 (see below). Køpcke - an interesting artist in his own right - was born in Hamburg but had settled in Copenhagen at the end of 1957 with his Danish wife, Aase. Their gallery became a contact point for the international avant-garde movements in Denmark, particularly Nouveau Realisme and Fluxus.
The exhibition featured a basket of hard boiled eggs with Manzoni’s fingerprint that could be eaten, and the boxed version above, for purchase.
The works were exhibited again a month later at Azimut gallery, which Manzoni had founded with Enrico Castellani in 1957. The July 1960 exhibition, Consumption of Art by the Art-Devouring Public,
was the final show by Manzoni at Azimuth, after which the gallery was forced to close when the lease expired.
While numbered, the works did not state an edition size. To date, 54 examples have been catalogued.
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