Piero Manzoni: BACGLSP

Paolo Bacilieri puts his name to the graphic biography of the great artist Piero Manzoni, pursuing his narrative of Milan through the locations and architecture of the city and the great people who have been through it. Manzoni marked international art with his provocations, from the canned “artist’s shit” standing out on the cover of the volume published by Coconino, to his fingerprinted hard-boiled eggs. The book goes back over his life from his birth, in 1933: a dazzling but extremely fast-paced career, which ended with the death of the artist, who passed away very young in 1963. The black and white of the panels poetically depict a city full of contradictions that was rapidly evolving after the war; images of the streets of the centre follow those of the slums, of the Pirellone tower and of the city vegetable gardens. Nights spent in the Bar Jamaica in Brera and the relationship with friends like Ettore Sottsass and Lucio Fontana.

Piero Manzoni: BACGLSP. Basta a ciascun giorno la sua pena (Piero Manzoni: Each day has enough trouble of its own)
Paolo Bacilieri
Coconino press, 2023