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Piero Manzoni and ZERO

Piero Manzoni and ZERO

The video documentary PIERO MANZONI AND ZERO presents the richness and meaning of the artistic relationships in Europe, at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s, around the pivotal figure of Piero Manzoni.
One of the protagonists and catalysers of this revolutionary creative context moving beyond Informel into a new form of creativity, internationally known as the ZERO movement, Manzoni is the forerunner and unexhausted “travelling messenger” of a new geography of relations. His continuous journeys and activity mark a new transnational perspective: an alternative vision compared to North American art, but also dissimilar to the Parisian milieu. ZERO operates according to this new geography: it travels through Milan, Rome, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, Düsseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt, London, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Copenhagen and Zagreb. Following different lines and standards and producing a massive exchange of letters, works, exhibitions, publications, these artists establish new creative and at the same time methodical guidelines, as well as new hubs and places that inexorably adopt such guidelines, thus amplifying and spreading their effects.

Devised, written and edited by
Francesca Pola

In collaboration with
Fondazione Piero Manzoni

Realized by
Zenit Arti Audiovisive

Executive producers
Thomas and Lisa Blumenthal

2018

Filming of interviews
Edoardo Podo

Original soundtrack includes first recording of
A contemporary sound portrait of Piero Manzoni’s Achrome
by Andrea Cavallari
performed by Ciro Longobardi, piano

with
Heinz Mack
Otto Piene
Günther Uecker
Bernard Aubertin
Agostino Bonalumi
Almir Mavignier
Christian Megert
François Morellet
Henk Peeters
herman de vries

Director
Fabrizio Galatea

Editing
Lucio Viglierchio

Additional music
Fabio Viana

Date of release: October 19, 2018 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 5pm
in the context of the ZERO-Weekend in Düsseldorf

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