The definitive monograph on celebrated Italian artist of the meta-spectacle, Francesco Vezzoli. Francesco Vezzoli has become famous for a body of work that belies both a fascination for and a revulsion toward celebrity culture. His wide-ranging works include serigraphs with areas of hand-stitched embroidery, film, and photography, and his ability to create a thriving nexus of art, celebrity, fashion, and cinema is reflected in his splashy live performances. Documenting fifteen years of Vezzoli's practice, this monograph includes the artist's collaborations with an eminent group of luminaries, from Miuccia Prada and Frank Gehry to Cate Blanchett, Gore Vidal, Roman Polanski, Damien Hirst, Lady Gaga, and the Bolshoi Ballet. The book is organized as a seductive anthology of projects, each introduced by a distinguished art critic, curator, or chronicler of modern culture, all of whom have been participators and observers to the course of Vezzoli's career. These enduring collaborations reveal the many touchstones that make up the artist's elaborate and mesmerizing universe: modernity and retro, Hollywood Babylon and personal obsessions, icons of camp and high culture, haute couture and kitsch.
作者簡介
Francesco Vezzoli studied at the Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Fondazione Prada, Milan; Tate Modern, London; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow; Gagosian Gallery, Rome; Gagosian Gallery, New York; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Cristiana Perrella is a Rome-based art critic and independent curator. From 1998 to 2008, she was director of the Contemporary Arts Program at the British School at Rome. She has collaborated with Francesco Vezzoli on numerous projects, and in 1999 curated the artist's first solo exhibition in a public space.
