Pierre Pinoncelli's

Many people, including the writer who covered this story in the New York Times, consider Pinoncelli as nothing more than an attention-seeking old man. In 1993, when he was on trial for attacking the same Duchamp piece by urinating into it before striking it with hammer in Nimes, the presiding judge gave the Frenchman a relatively lenient sentence because it was thought that he only wanted to " hijack the fame of the original artist" rather than actually destroy anything . Despite such opinions, those who understand the Dada movement can see that pinoncelli's apparent madness is based in exactly the same place the Duchamp's primary principle artist was, all those year ago when the majority of the art world called him crazy. Fountain was after all, rejected from an exhibition in New York when the artist presented it for the first time in 1917.
I see Pierre Pinoncelli as a perfomance artist specialising in outradgeous "happenings" or artistic provocations. How can he dressed up as Santa Claus and empty his bag in front of children and smash the toys into pieces. Just because he wants to protest against the commercialisation.