ABOVE: Pierre Pinoncelli, top right, was ordered to pay more than €200,000 for damages to Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain.

Pierre Pinoncelli, who we reported on earlier this month when he brought his (bang bang!) silver hammer down upon Marcel Duchamp’s famous Fountain, was ordered by a Paris judge yesterday to pay €214,000 as a fine for his attack, and to pay to have the piece repaired.

Pinoncelli maintains that his attack was a piece of performance art, and that he has made the iconic Duchamp “readymade” into a truly original work by damaging it. The judge, as judges are wont to do, disagreed. Pinoncelli’s hammering was an escalation of his aggression against the hapless urinal, which he urinated into during a 1993 exhibit. It will apparently cost €14,352 to have the piece restored.

LINK: BBC > Attack on urinal work brings fine