Question: Facts: - imagesize: 200px - death place: milan - caption: piero manzoni , 1960 - birth name: meroni manzoni di chiosca e poggiolo - death date: 6 february 1963 - field: artist - birth date: 13 july 1933 - name: piero manzoni - movement: conceptual art - nationality: italian - image: manzoni portrait.jpg - birth place: soncino cremona Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of piero manzoni .
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piero manzoni -lrb- july 13 , 1933 -- february 6 , 1963 -rrb- was an italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art .often compared to the work of yves klein , his own work anticipated , and directly influenced , the work of a generation of younger italian artists brought together by the critic germano celant in the first arte povera exhibition held in genoa , 1967 .manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object , directly prefiguring conceptual art .his work eschews normal artist 's materials , instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to '' tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values '' .his work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing italian society -lrb- the italian economic miracle -rrb- after world war ii .italian artists such as manzoni had to negotiate the new economic and material order of post-war europe through inventive artistic practices which crossed geographic , artistic , and cultural borders .