%C2%A9 Mike Bidlo
Impronte pollice sinistro, 1960, 2015
Lithographexpand_more
Proceeds from the 2015 Minneapolis Print and Drawing Fairexpand_more 2016.60.2
Not on Viewexpand_more
This suite of three lithographs is a reinterpretation of graphic work originally conceived and produced by Italian avant-garde artist Piero Manzoni (1933–1963), an early proponent of Arte Povera (Poor art), a radical movement that advocated the upending of the dominant formal and ideological conventions and disruption of the art market’s growing corporate mentality. Bidlo’s project was inspired directly by Manzoni’s photolithographic portfolio 8 Works of Verification (8 Tavole di accertamento) of 1962. In this landmark publication, Manzoni presented eight ways to identify oneself, a conceptual consideration on the notion of personal and artistic identity. Three of the photolithographs featured images of Manzoni’s fingerprints and enlarged single thumbprints, an indexical trace of the human body and unmistakable signifier of personal identity. The photolithographs function as portraits of the subject (Manzoni). In his re-creation, Bidlo adds a twist, using images his own fingerprints and thumbprints, thus contradicting his usual practice of creating exact replicas of originals. In this instance, Bidlo borrows the concept and format of the original, but makes the works his own by introducing another layer of inquiry regarding notions of originality and artistic identity. Is the subject of the work Manzoni' Or Bidlo'
Details
- Title
- Impronte pollice sinistro, 1960
- Artist Life
- born 1953
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2016.60.2
- Provenance
- [World House Editions, Middlebury, Conn. (publisher), 2015–16; sold to Mia]
- Curator Approved
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