This article is published in number 9 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 2, 2021
The symbol of Brussels is the little man who pisses, a small bronze sculpture of just over half a meter. The Manneken-Pis, a little man, in fact, with a pea in his hand urinating. A boon for professional “selfieists”. In Pisa people pose pretending to hold the leaning tower, in Brussels people pretend to have the baby pee on their heads. All tastes are tastes. Bodily functions seem to inspire art.
Without having to dig up the famous strategy Artist shit by Piero Manzoni, in Paris, in the window of Pièce Unique, a new project by the Massimo De Carlo Gallery, you can see three figures pooping on a table. The work is called Clay Baby, child of clay, of the American sculptor Kaari Upson who took an old German souvenir that his mother had given him and reproduced it with a 3D printer. The statuette, which has a hole in the front and one in the back, may have originally been a sausage holder. The fact is that if one fills the Baby’s body with I don’t know what mixture and then lights it with a match, he starts defecating. Thank God what comes out looks more like lava from a small volcano than excrement. But the show remains interesting and mostly odorless. Those who want to know more go to Instagram, @kaariupson, and watch the curious video.
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