Pierre Pinoncelli

 
Since his two hammer attacks on Marcel Duchamp's Fountain urinal in 1993 and 2006, French artist Pierre Pinoncelli (1929-2021) has been known the world over for this iconoclastic and subversive act. This resounding artistic attack obscured the rest of his career in the eyes of the public. Stopping painting in 1966 to devote himself to happenings, Pinoncelli has never ceased to denounce the contradictions of our society. Pinoncelli is the man who sprayed André Malraux with red paint in 1969, who robbed a bank to protest against apartheid in 1975, who publicly mutilated himself in Colombia to free Ingrid Bétancourt and denounce the violence of the FARCS in 2002. Often motivated by political demands, Pinoncelli went to the end of his ideas and expressed himself by often shocking gestures, which question us.
 
Pierre Pinoncelli - Pierre Pinoncelli, l\'artiste à la phalange coupée (DVD)
2022
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
A documentary film made over 10 years by Virgile Novarina, portraying the iconoclastic artist Pierre Pinoncelli, known since the 1960s for his shocking happenings.


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