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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