'''Pierre Pinoncelli''' (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a [[performance art]]ist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of ''[[Fountain (Duchamp)|Fountain]]'' by [[Marcel Duchamp]] with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at [[Centre Pompidou]] in Paris and the first at an exhibition in [[Nîmes]] on 25 August 1993, where he also urinated into it before using the hammer.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204113832/http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20060212191356996 |url=http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20060212191356996 |title=Pierre Pinoncelli: This man is not an artist |date=20 July 2015 |archivedate=4 December 2014}}, from [[The Independent]], by John Lichfield, published February 13 2006, retrieved April 23 2011 (archived at infoshop.org)</ref> He has also thrown 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|FARC guerillas]] holding the French-Colombian politician [[Íngrid Betancourt]] hostage.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/arts/design/07duch.html?_r=1 Conceptual Artist as Vandal: Walk Tall and Carry a Little Hammer (or Ax)] from [[the New York Times]], by Alan Riding, published January 7 2006, retrieved April 23 2011</ref>

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