Claudio Parmiggiani

Claudio Parmiggiani (b Lussara, Reggio Emilia, 1 March 1943) Italian conceptual artist. He trained at the Istituto Statale di Belle Arti, Modena, and held his first one-man show in Bologna in 1965. The example of Marcel Duchamp and of Piero Manzoni was apparent early on in his manipulation and presentation of objects, for example the arrangement of a globe and a pickle jar containing a