Can art get any crazier than this? An Italian artist named Piero Manzoni gathered 90 tin cans and put 30 grams of his excrement inside each can and sealed it. He labeled the cans with the worlds "Artist's Shit" in English, German, Italian and French. He considered it art. He planned to sell his Artist's Shit as expensive as gold. This means that one gram of his shit is equivalent to the price of one gram of gold.
You're probably wondering how he came up with this idea of putting shit in tin cans and considering it as art. According to rumors, his father once told him that art is shit. I think he took it literally. Hahaha! In 2007 oned of the cans was auctioned off. The buyer spent a whopping 80,000 USD for that shit. Now who in the right mind would do that? Who would have ever thought that a can of shit will be sold for 80,000 USD. Another can of merde d'artista can be found in Tate Modern in London. Nobody knows what it contained because no one wanted to open the can. Doing this would destroy the value of the work. Its monetary value is increasing year after year.
I don't know how I'll gain an appreciation of Merde d'artista. It's just out of this world. According to an art historian, "It is a joke, a parody of the art market, and a critique of consumerism and the waste it generates."
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