Merda D'artista (literally translated in English: Artist's shit) is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, filled with feces, each 30 grams and measuring 4.8x6.5cm, with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating:
Artist's Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly preserved
Produced and tinned
in May 1961
At the time the piece was created Manzoni was producing works that explored the relationship between art production and human production, Fiato d'artista (Artist's breath), a series of balloons filled with Manzoni's breath, being an example.
