Edited by Chiara Costa, Mario Mainetti. Foreword by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, Monica Maggioni, Antonio Campo Dall'Orto. Text by Maria Pia Ammirati, et al.
Slip, hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 764 pgs / 100 color / 10 bw. | 6/27/2017 | In stock $75.00
In his most notable series, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971) stitches bejeweled tears onto the faces of film and fashion's greatest stars. This book traces Vezzoli's engagement with visual history, from the golden age of Italian cinema to the devotional traditions of religious iconography.
Published by Mousse Publishing. Edited by Letizia Ragaglia. Preface by Cerith Wyn Evans. Text by Anna Coliva, et al. Interview by Cristiana Perrella.
Museo Museion, from Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971), is designed like a fictitious old guide to a museum of peculiar, striking juxtapositions: the artist’s sculptural works add new features to mutilated historic pieces, while contemporary pieces are juxtaposed with trompe l’oeil reproductions of the frames of classic paintings.
Published by Fondazione Prada. Edited by Chiara Costa, Mario Mainetti. Foreword by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli, Monica Maggioni, Antonio Campo Dall'Orto. Text by Maria Pia Ammirati, et al.
TV 70 is a project by artist Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971) developed in collaboration with Rai, Italy’s national broadcasting company. With archival material and testimonials, it explores 1970s TV production.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Cristiana Perrella. Text by Cristiana Perrella, Nicholas Cullinhan, Neville Wakefield, Bruce Hainley.
Borrowing the strategy of a commercial perfume launch, Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971) created a signature perfume called “Greed” and commissioned Roman Polanski to direct a 60-second commercial starring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams. A series of needlework portraits of women in art history--Tamara de Lempicka, Eva Hesse, Leonor Fini--presented them as endorsers of the perfume.
Published by The Power Plant. Text by David Rimanelli, Gianfranco Maraniello, Gregory Burke.
This small volume documents the first major solo exhibition in North America by celebrated Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli. Surveying the artist's career through the lens of his video, “Marlene Redux: A True Hollywood Story!,” it also includes 19 Josef Albers-inspired needleworks and 16 new fictional film posters.
PUBLISHER The Power Plant
BOOK FORMAT Clth, 6.75 x 6.75 in. / 118 pgs / 44 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 2/1/2009 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 161
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781894212120TRADE List Price: $45.00 CAD $60.00
Published by Fondazione Prada. Edited by Germano Celant. Essays by Patrizio Bertelli.
Francesco Vezzoli's Trilogia della Morte (Trilogy of Death) explores video and embroidery, an unconventional combination unified by both passion and effectiveness. The 120 Seats of Sodom, inspired by the Italian director and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's The 120 Days of Sodom, aligns 120 black Charles Rennie Mackintosh chairs with embroidered seats before a tapestry showing erotic scenes from other Pasolini films. Non-Love Meetings, conceived as a reinvention of Pasolini's documentary Love Meetings, in which the director traveled through Italy interviewing people about love and sex, is set in a television studio and evokes Blind Date as much as its titular reference. Like Love Meetings, it seeks to create a psychological territory in which the public speaks openly about sex and love; like reality TV, it stars a showgirl, as well as actresses from the film world, MTV and soap operas, all of whom are courted by unlikely suitors. A fetching and thought-provoking mix of both formal and colloquial entertainment.
Published by Hatje Cantz. Artwork by Francesco Vezzoli. Edited by Gianfranco Maraniello, Dan Cameron, Barbara Steiner, Jan Winkelmann.
Next to his film and video works, the needleworks of Milan-based artist Francesco Vezzoli constitute a second important artistic output, in which the artist deals with the stars and divas of film, advertising, fashion, and TV. Through artfully, obsessively embroidered portraits, Vezzoli explores both the glamour that surrounds celebrities and the loneliness and transigence of their fame.
Francesco Vezzoli: Museo Museion
Francesco Vezzoli: TV 70
Francesco Vezzoli: Greed
Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story
Francesco Vezzoli
The Needleworks Of Francesco Vezzoli