Pierre Pinoncelli (15 April 1929 – 9 October 2021) was a French performance artist, best known 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 most recent attack happened on 4 January 2006 at Centre Pompidou in Paris and the first at an exhibition in

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on 25 August 1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer. Pinoncelli was born in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France, in April 1929. He also threw 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 at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician

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hostage. Pinoncelli died on 9 October 2021, at the age of 92.Pierre Pinoncelli, peintre et familier des happenings, est mort
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1929 births 2021 deaths French performance artists Artists from Saint-Étienne {{France-artist-stub