Pierre Pinoncelli
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Pierre Pinoncelli is a performance art
ist most famous for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain
by Marcel Duchamp
with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The last attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes
1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer.
He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux
, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice
of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers off at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt
hostage.
Performance art
In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
ist most famous for damaging two of the eight copies of Fountain
Fountain (Duchamp)
Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades. In such pieces he made use of an already existing object. In this case Duchamp used a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". Readymades also go by the term Found object...
by Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The last attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in Nîmes
Nîmes
Nîmes is the capital of the Gard department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France. Nîmes has a rich history, dating back to the Roman Empire, and is a popular tourist destination.-History:...
1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer.
He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux
André Malraux
André Malraux DSO was a French adventurer, award-winning author, and statesman. Having traveled extensively in Indochina and China, Malraux was noted especially for his novel entitled La Condition Humaine , which won the Prix Goncourt...
, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers off at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt
Íngrid Betancourt
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio is a Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist.Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on 23 February 2002 and was rescued by Colombian security forces six and a half years later on 2 July 2008...
hostage.