Piero Manzoni
There are lots of connections to the 1961 work Merda D’artista by Piero Manzoni, where he preserved 90, 30gram Net cans of his own excrement. Expulsion as a commodity. His decision to price it on par with the one of gold made clear reference to the tradition of the artist as alchemist already forged by Marcel Duchamp among others. Just like in 21st Century Raw Material Manzoni understood the creative act being part of the cycle of consumption.
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