Piero Manzoni was an Italian conceptual artist who died in 1963 at the early age of 29. In his short carreer he managed to become a witty enfant terrible whose “Merda d’artista” (Artist’s Shit) became a flagship of the conceptual art movement of the 1960’s. Base Magica is a podium for a living sculpture. A curator from the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis talks about this piece.