Francesco Vezzoli

John Peter Nilsson: Du föddes i italienska Brescia 1971. Berätta lite om din uppväxt och familjebakgrund.

Francesco Vezzoli: Jag växte upp med mycket liberala föräldrar och tillbringade mycket tid med min far- och mormor, den ena arbetarklass och den andra mer borgerlig, samt två äldre fastrar. Alla kvinnor…

JPN: Broderi spelar en viktig roll i ditt konstnärskap. Redan när du studerade på Central St. Martin’s School of Art i London mellan 1992 och 1995 gjorde du ett broderat porträtt av gay porrstjärnan Jeff Stryker, ett okonventionellt motiv!? Träffade du honom?

FV: Tyvärr inte…

JPN: Berätta lite om din besatthet av åldrade kvinnliga divor. Vad har de mer gemensamt än att de är kvinnor som förefaller ha förlorat sin tidigare betydelse därför att de har blivit gamla?

FV: Konstnärer är själva divor och precis som skådespelerskor rädda för att åldras. Kanske såg jag i de tårfyllda ögonen en spegling av mina egna rädslor…

JPN: Hur lyckas du beveka celebriteterna du samarbetar med, inklusive alla ”bakom scenen”-människorna som du också inkorporerar i dina produktioner?

FV: Jag skickar blommor och brev, men för det mesta är det mötet på tu man hand som bryter isen. Än så länge har jag varit lyckligt lottad, kanske för att ”stjärnorna” kände att projekten var uppriktigt ”anpassade” till deras identiteter på och utanför scenen.

JPN: Till sist, varför är Prinsessan Caroline lämplig att framträda som Drottning Kristina?

FV: Därför att hon är den ultimata korsningen mellan verklig kungamakt och Hollywoods kungamakt. Prinsessan Caroline är den ideala kandidaten att framträda som vad som helt, inte minst att framträda som en drottning likt Kristina som ju under sin egen tid hade modet att offentligt utmana likriktning och den allmänna opinionen.

John Peter Nilsson är intendent på Moderna Museet.

Francesco Vezzoli

Bor och arbetar i Milano

Utbildning

1992–1995 BA, Fine Art, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London

Separatutställningar

2009
Greed: The New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli, Gagosian Gallery, Rom / Rome [IT]

2008
Democrazy. An Installation by Francesco Vezzoli, The Wolfsonian FIU, Miami [US]

2007
Francesco Vezzoli: Primadonnas, Pinakothek der Moderne, München / Munich [DE]
Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story! (curator Gregory Burke), The Power Plant, Toronto [CA]
Francesco Vezzoli: Democrazy (curator Ida Gianelli), Biennale di Venezia, Italienska paviljongen / The Italian Pavilion, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Trailer for a remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula, Museum Ludwig, Köln / Cologne [DE]

2006
Francesco Vezzoli’s Caligula, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad / Belgrade [RS]
Marlene Redux: A True Hollywood Story!, Tate Modern, London [GB]
Francesco Vezzoli, Le Consortium, Dijon [FR]
The Bruce Nauman Trilogy, Galerie Neu, Berlin [DE]
The Gore Vidal Trilogy, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles [US]

2005
Francesco Vezzoli – Trilogy of Death, Fondazione Cini, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Francesco Vezzoli (curator João Fernandes), Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto [PT]

2004
Premio Acacia 2004, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano / Milan [IT]
Francesco Vezzoli – Trilogy of Death (curator Germano Celant), Fondazione Prada, Milano / Milan [IT]

2002
Francesco by Francesco: A Collaboration with Francesco Scavullo, Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano / Milan [IT]
The Needleworks of Francesco Vezzoli (curator Jan Winkelmann), Blinky Palermo award of the East German Savings Bank Foundation for the Free State of Saxony, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig [DE]
Art Statements, Art 33 Basel, Basel [CH] (Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano / Milan)
The Films of Francesco Vezzoli (curator Dan Cameron), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [US]
Francesco Vezzoli (curator Marcella Beccarla), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli [IT]

2000
A Love Trilogy – Self-portrait with Marisa Berenson as Edith Piaf (curator Danilo Eccher), Spazio Aperto, GAM, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna [IT]

1999
Francesco Vezzoli, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London [GB]
An Embroidered Trilogy, Centre d’Art Contemporain (curator Paolo Colombo), Genève / Geneva [CH]; Galleria d’Arte Moderna (special screening), Bologna [IT]; The British School at Rome(curator Cristiana Perrella), Rom / Rom [IT]; Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano / Milan [IT]

Grupputställningar

2009
Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 (curator Francesco Bonami), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago [US]
Un Certain Etat du Monde? – A Selection of Works from the Francois Pinault Foundation (curator Caroline Bourgeois, The Garage CCC, Moskva / Moscow [RU]

2008
Italics: Italian Art Between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 (curator Francesco Bonami), Palazzo Grassi, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Review, Galerie Neu, Berlin [DE]
Head to Head: Political Portraits, Museum Für Gestaltung, Zürich / Zurich [CH]
I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, Asia Song Society, New York [US]
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Part II: Realisms (curator Kerry Brougher, Anne Ellegood, Kelly Gordon, Kristen Hileman), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC [US]
Thoughts on Democracy, The Wolfsonian FIU, Miami [US]
Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMBO Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna [IT]
Just Different!, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen [NL]
Une Saison à Bruxelles, Dépendance, Bryssel / Brussels [BE]
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London [GB]
Re-Education – You Can Be Like Us, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin [DE]

2007
Deutsche Geschichten, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig [DE]
Idylle, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca; National Gallery, Prag / Prague [CZ]
Looking Up, Mário Sequeira Gallery, Braga [PT]
Reverence, HVCCA, Peekskill [US]
Vertigo, MAMbo, Bologna [IT]
Les Fleurs du Mal (curator Danilo Eccher), Arcos – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento [IT]
Performa07 (curator RoseLee Goldberg), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York [US]
Senso Unico : A show of eight contemporary Italian artists (curator Alanna Heiss), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York [US]
Passage du Temps: Une sélection d’oeuvres autour de l’image, François Pinault Foundation, Tripostal, Lille [FR]
Apocalittici e Integrati: Utopia nell’Arte Italiana di oggi, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rom / Rome [IT]

2006
Idylle: Traum und Trugschluss, Phoenix Kuntlurstiftung / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg [DE]
À la recherche d’une beauté disparue: Omaggio a Luchino Visconti, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone [IT]
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner and Wirth, New York [US]
Le Paradoxe du comédien – Figures de l’acteur, Collection Lambert, Avignon [FR]
People, Museo Madre, Neapel / Naples [IT]
Review – Videos from the Pierre Huber collection, Magasin – Centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble [FR]
La force de l’Art, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris [FR] Short History of Performance IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London [GB]
40 years, Yvon Lambert, Paris [FR]
The Adelaide Festival of Arts 2006, Adelaide [AU]
The 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [US] Satellite of Love, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam [NL]
Hollywood Boulevard, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo [BR]
Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei [TW]
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale Köln in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin [DE]
Neo-con: Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, The British School at Rome, Rom / Rome [IT]
Hyper Design, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai [CN]
Neo-con: Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art (curator Cristiana Perrella), Apexart, New York [US]

2005
Superstars: Celebrity Factor in Art from Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien / Vienna Homage to the Square, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin [IT]
From the Electronic Eye: The Video Collection of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (curator Marcella Beccarla), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli [IT]
Girls on Film (curator Kristine Bell), Zwirner and Wirth, New York [US]
The Experience of Art (curator Maria de Corral), Padiglione Italia, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venedig / Venice [IT]
Prague Biennale 2 – Expanded Painting, Karlin Hall, Prag / Prague [CZ]
Contrabandistas de Imágenes: Selección 26ª Bienal de Sao Paulo, Espacio Quinta Normal, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago [CL]
XIV Quadriennale, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rom / Rome [IT]
The Italian Look – Italian Fashion Photographs from 1951 to today (curator Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, DARC – Direzione Generale per l’Architettura e l’Arte Contemporanee, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica), Rotonda di via Besana, Milano / Milan [IT]
African Queen (curator Rashida Bumbray, Ali Evans, Sandra D. Jackson & Christine Y. Kim), The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York [US]
BYO: Bring Your Own, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro [IT]
Square: Die Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch [DE]
Kunst Film Biennale Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln / Cologne [DE]

2004
Experiments with Truth (curator Mark Nash), The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia [US]
Nuit Blanche (curator Gianfranco Maraniello), Hôpital Cochin (Port Royal Chapter House), Paris [FR]
Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão da Bienal (Ciccillo Matarazzo), Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo [BR]
Nocturnal Emissions / Nachtelijke uitspattingen, Groninger Museum, Groningen [NL]
The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum, Zürich / Zurich [CH]
The Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists Vršac 2004, Konkordija Cultural Centre, Vršac, Belgrad / Belgrade [RS]
Angelo Filomeno, Simon Periton, Philip Taaffe, Francesco Vezzoli, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York [US]
Lucio Fontana, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf [CH]
L’Arte in Testa (curator Luca Beatrice), MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Isernia [IT]

2003
The Tale of the Thread – Embroidery and Sewing in Contemporary Art (curator Francesca Pasini & Giorgio Verzotti), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Mart [IT]
Edinburgh International Film Festival (curator Shane Danielsen & Suzanne Dunn), Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh [GB]
Fantastic Prophecy (curator Annie Fletcher & Liutauras Psibilskis), BAK, basis voor actuele kunst; Academiegalerie, Utrecht [NL]
Progetto Video (curator Maria Rosa Sossai), Sala Murat, Bari [IT]
New Space! Group Show!, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin [IT]
Carte Blanche, La Fémis, école Nationale Supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son, Centre national des arts plastiques (DAP), Paris [FR]

2002
VideoZone, The 1st International Video-Art Biennial in Israel (curator Sergio Edelsztein & Tal Yahas), Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv [IL]
Ipotesi di Collezione (curator Danilo Eccher), MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rom / Rome [GB]
Second Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art (curator Christoph Grunenberg), Liverpool [GB]
Premio del Golfo – Biennale Europea Arti Visive 2002 (curator Bruno Corà), Palazzo dello Sport, La Spezia [IT]
Disturb (curator Dimitrios Antonitsis), Hydra [GR]
Verso il Futuro: Identità nell’arte italiana 1990–2002 (curator Ludovico Pratesi, Costantino D’Orazio), Museo del Corso, Rom / Rome [IT]
Opening Show (curator Gavin Brown, Franco Noero & Toby Webster), Galleria Roma Roma Roma, Rom / Rome [IT]
Ouverture… arte dall’Italia (curator Andrea Bruciati), Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone [IT] Penetration (curator Mark Fletcher), Friedrich Petzel and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York [US] Melodrama (curator Doreet Levitte Harten), Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporàneo,Vitoria [ES]; Palacios de los Condes de Gabia / Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada [ES]; Marco, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, Vigo [ES]
Spring Forward (curator Downtown Art Projects i samarbete med / in collaboration with The Drawing Center, The Swiss Institute, Artists Space, Exit Art / The First World, New Museum of Contemporary Art), Chanel SoHo, New York [US]
Campy Vampy Tacky : Leigh Bowwery, Brice Dellsperger, Takashi Ito, Michel Journiac, Ugo Rondinone, Francesco Vezzoli, Andy Warhol (curator Larys Frogier), La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes [FR]
De Gustibus – Collezione privata Italia (curator Sergio Risaliti e Achille Bonito Oliva), Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena [IT]

2001
East Wing Collection No.5 (curator Cathleen Chaffee), Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London [GB]
A Sense of Wellbeing: Loss, History and Desires (curator Marco Scotini), Bagni Imperiali, Karlovy Vary [CZ]
The 1st Tirana Biennial (curator Helena Kontova), Tirana [AL] Generator 3 (curator Gea Politi), Baluardo di San Regolo – Giardino Botanico, Lucca [IT]
Haraldur Jònsson, Annika Strom, Francesco Vezzoli (curator Evaldas Stankevicius & Anders Kreuger), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius [LT]
Squatters (curator Vincente Todoli), Fundação Serralves, Porto [PT]
Boom! Espresso: Arte oggi in Italia (curator Sergio Risaliti), Manifattura Tabacchi, Florens / Florence [IT]
Platea dell’Umanità, 49a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte (curator Harald Szeemann), Biennale di Venezia, Venedig / Venice [IT] SurFace (curator Pontus Kyander), Lunds Konsthall, Lund [SE] Bra mot melankoli / Remedy for Melancholy (curator Anders Kreuger), Edsvik konst och kultur, Sollentuna [SE]; Baltic Art Center, Visby [SE]
Magic and Loss – Contemporary Italian Video (curator Rhidian Davis), Pandemonium: The London Festival of Moving Image, The LUX Centre, London [GB]

2000
Premio per la giovane arte italiana ”Migrazioni” (curator Paolo Colombo), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Rom / Rome [IT]
Generator (curator Gea Politi), Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (PG); Galleria Loretta Cristofori, Bologna [IT]
Group Show, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London [GB]
Art and Facts (curator Mariuccia Casadio), Galleria Franco Noero, Turin [IT]

1999
EXIT, Chisenhale Gallery, London [GB]
Videodrome (curator Dan Cameron), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [US]
6th International Istanbul Biennal (curator Paolo Colombo), Istanbul [TR]
Omaggi e oltraggi, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milano / Milan [IT]

1998
Fast Forward: Independent Italian Films and Videos, Brown University, Providence [US]
La coscienza luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rom / Rome [IT]

1997
Fatto in Italia / Made in Italy (Video selection) (curator Paolo Colombo), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève / Geneva [CH]; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London [GB]; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [US]

Bibliografi

MacDonald, Alison (red./ed. ), Francesco Vezzoli: Right You Are (If You Think You Are), Milano: Charta, 2008 Burke, Gregory (red./ed.), Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story!, Toronto: The Power Plant, 2008 Gianelli, Ida (red./ed.), Francesco Vezzoli Democrazy, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, DARC – Direzione generale perl’architettura e l’arte contemporanee, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Milano: Electa, 2007 Celant, Germano (red./ed.), Francesco Vezzoli, Milano: Fondazione Prada, Progetto Prada Arte, 2004 Winkelmann, Jan (red./ed.), The Needleworks of Francesco Vezzoli, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2002 Beccaria, M. (red./ed.), Francesco Vezzoli, Rivoli, Turin: Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, 2002