Francesco Vezzoli

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Francesco Vezzoli (* 1971 in Brescia ) is an Italian conceptual artist and filmmaker (“multimedia pop art artist ”) who works from Milan .

Life

From 1992 to 1995 he studied at London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design .

In his first work from 1994 to 1996 he reproduced works by Mark Rothko and Josef Albers as embroidery . He also used this technique later, and embroidered tears on pictures of women became one of his trademarks.

In 2000 he made the short film The Kiss (Let's play Dynasty) , in which Helmut Berger appeared. In 2005 he shot the short film Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula, produced by Quentin Tarantino for the Venice Biennale, with actors such as Courtney Love , Helen Mirren , Milla Jovovich and Benicio del Toro .

At the next Biennale in 2007, his video Democrazy with Sharon Stone and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was shown in the Italian Pavilion . In the same year he was responsible for Edition 46 of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Since the video for Speechless 2009 he has been working with Lady Gaga again and again . In that year he also created a pseudo commercial for the alleged perfume "Greed", filmed by Roman Polański with Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams . He donated the spot to MOCA .

In 2013 he was in the ZDF program Durch die Nacht mit… , in which two artists meet, can be seen with Rufus Wainwright in Rome. They first visit the Vezzoli retrospective in the MAXXI Museum , and later the Borghese Gallery . In the same year his project to dismantle a church in Italy and to rebuild it in New York at MoMA PS1 failed because she was not allowed to leave the country.

Exhibitions

  • 2013: Museum of Crying Women , QMA Gallery , Katara, Doha, Qatar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spot on Ikono ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ikono.org
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  3. ↑ Leigh Lilver: Francesco Vezzoli's Italian Church Is No Longer Coming to MoMA PS1. complex.com, November 26, 2013
  4. ↑ Weeping women for Qatar in FAZ from October 18, 2013, page 36
personal data
SURNAME Vezzoli, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian concept artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia , Italy