Man Sells His Shit Based On The Gold Price

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Piero Manzoni is an aristocratic Italian artist, for him everything he creates is an arts including his poop in 1961. He had the idea to can his own poop, after he visited an exhibition of Yves Klein’s blue paintings at the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan in January 1957.

Manzoni created a collection of 90 tin cans contained 30g of his shit, all signed by him and labeled as “Artist’s Shit, Freshly Preserved, Produced and Tinned in May 1961”. The sell price of his shit per can, based on the weight of the gold market at the time! In 2007, the Tate art gallery in London, bought one of Manzoni’s 90 cans for £22,350 ($30,000). Unfortunately, Piero Manzoni died in 1963, at the age of 29.