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FRANCESCO VEZZOLI

Born in 1971, Brescia, Italy

Lives and works in Milan, Italy

EDUCATION

1992-95 BA, Fine Art, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London, United Kingdom

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

‘Huysmans Art Critic. From Degas to Grünewald, in the Eye of Francesco Vezzoli’, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
‘Party Politics’, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Italy 
‘Le Lacrime Dei Poeti (Les Larmes Des Poètes)’, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

2018

‘C-CUT: Homo ab Homine Natus’, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
‘Francesco Vezzoli “The End Of The Human Voice”’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France

2017

‘Opérapompidou’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
‘TV 70: Francesco Vezzoli guarda la Rai’, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
‘You × Art × Centre Pompidou Carte blanche to Francesco Vezzoli’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
‘Metafisica da Giardino: Curated by Francesco Vezzoli’, Nahmad Projects, London, United Kingdom

2016

‘Museo Museion: Francesco Vezzoli’, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
‘Amália Traída (Amalia Betrayed)’, Gagosian Gallery, Roma
‘Francesco Vezzoli Cinerama’, OCA, Parque Do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil ‘Classic Vezzoli’, Sotheby’s, London, United Kingdom
‘Villa Marlene’, Villa Paloma, NMNM-Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco

2015

‘Fortuna Desperata’. Performance featuring David Hallberg, Performa 15, New York, USA

‘Francesco Vezzoli’s Eternal Kiss’, Almine Rech Gallery, London, United Kingdom ‘Le Metamorfosi di Francesco Vezzoli’, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

‘Il classico si fa pop’, Palazzo Massimo-Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma
‘Withers meets Art: Lisa Ponti in dialogo con Giò Ponti e Francesco Vezzoli’, Withers Office, Milano
‘On a Pedestal – Celebrating the contemporary portrait bust in the 21st century’, Castletown House, Co. Kildare, Ireland
‘J’<3 Avignon’, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
‘Take Me (I’m Yours)’, Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici, Roma ‘ITALIANA. L’Italia vista dalla moda 1971-2001’, Palazzo Reale, Milano
‘The Summer Show (da un’idea di Vedovamazzei)’, Renata Fabbri Arte Contemporanea, Milano
‘Raffaello e l’Eco del Mito’, GAMeC, Bergamo ‘ART CAPSUL’, New York, USA

2017

‘Winter Season’, Galerie Gmurzynska, St.Moritz, Switzerland
‘Carta Bianca. Capodimonte Imaginaire’, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Napoli ‘Private Choices: 11 Collections Bruxelloises d’Art Contemporain’, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Bruxelles, Belgium
‘Take me (I’m Yours)’, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italy

‘Carta Bianca’, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
‘LOVE. L’arte contemporanea incontra l’amore’, La Permanente, Milan, Italy ‘Olga Picasso’, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France 
‘Winckelmann. Modern Antiquity’, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany 

2016

‘La Forza della Fotografia: Opere della Collezione Museion’, Fondazione MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy

‘The Third Nanjing International Art Festival – HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply’, Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China
‘Amália: Saudades do Brasil’, Consulado Geral de Portugal, São Paulo; Cidade das Artes, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil

‘XVI Quadriennale di Roma – Altri tempi, altri miti’, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
‘LOVE. L’arte contemporanea incontra l’amore’, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy ‘Luscious Thrills: Baroque reflections then and now’, GL Holtegaard, Holte

‘Quand fondra la neige, où ira le blanc: Opere della Collezione Enea Righi’, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia, Italy
‘Nuit Blanche Monaco – Le plaisir de la découverte’, Villa Sauber, Monaco, ‘Dall’Oggi al Domani. 24 Ore nell’arte contemporanea’, MACRO, Roma, Italy

Salvo è Vivo – An Homage, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany

2015

‘After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists’, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA ’Prima Donna, A Symphonic Visual Concert’, (Music by Rufus Wainwright featuring Cindy Sherman), Athens (premiere) 
‘Patrice Chéreau: un musée imaginaire’, Collection Lambert Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France 

‘Liberi Tutti! Arte e società in Italia. 1989-2001’, MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy ‘De Pictura – Volume III’, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon 
‘Un Museo Ideale. Ospiti d’eccezione nelle collezioni del Novecento. Dal Futurismo al Contemporaneo’, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy 

‘In Part’, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 
‘An Introduction’, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 
‘Picasso Mania’, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France
‘Picasso in Contemporary Art’, Deichtor Hallen, Hamburg, Germany 
‘Dans un interieur, meubles, oeuvres murales et textiles d’artistes’, Almine Rech Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
‘Ennesima: Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte italiana’, Triennale di Milano, Milan ‘Yes, We’re Open’, Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

2017

Francesco Vezzoli, ‘TV 70: Francesco Vezzoli guarda la Rai’, Fondazione Prada, Milano

2016

Francesco Vezzoli, ‘Museo Museion’, Mousse Publishing and Museion, Bolzano, 2016

Francesco Vezzoli, ‘Francesco Vezzoli’. Rizzoli, 2016

2013

Mattirolo, Anna, ‘Galleria Vezzoli’. Rome: MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 2013

2012

‘24Hours Museum’, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2012
2011

‘Francesco Vezzoli. Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never

See Again)’, Conversation between Francesco Vezzoli and Klaus Biesenbach; Text by Donatien Grau, Printed by Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, MN
Nilsson, John Peter, ‘Dalí Dalí featuring Francesco Vezzoli’, G. Steidl, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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Exhibitions

C-CUT Homo Ab Homine Natus
Le Metamorfosi di Francesco Vezzoli
Francesco Vezzoli – Pablo Bronstein con Giorgio de Chirico
Arts & Facts

Publications

Selected Works

Galleria Franco Noero

Francesco Vezzoli - Marlene Redux
Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, 2009
1/15
Contro Vezzoli
Marlena Books, Italia, 2009
2/15
Francesco Vezzoli: A True Hollywood Story
The Power Plant, Toronto, 2007
3/15
Democrazy
Mondadori Electa S.p.A., Milano, 2007
4/15
Francesco Vezzoli - Castello di Rivoli
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, 2002
5/15
Right you are
Edizioni Charta, Milano, 2009
6/15
Greed - Francesco Vezzoli
La Conservera, Espana, 2011 - out of stock
7/15
Galleria Vezzoli (2) - Francesco Vezzoli MAXXI
Electa Edizioni Charta, Milano, 2009
8/15
24hours Museum
Prada spa, Milano, 2012
9/15
The Museum of Crying Women
Kaleidoscope Press, Milano, 2013
10/15
Francesco Vezzoli
Rizzoli, New York, 2016
11/15
Museo Museion
Mousse Publishing, Bolzano, 2016
12/15
Galleria Vezzoli (1) - Francesco Vezzoli MAXXI
Mondadori Electa, 2013
13/15
TV 70: Francesco Vezzoli guarda la Rai
Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2017
14/15
Metafisica da Giardino
Nahmad Projects, 2017
15/15

Galleria Franco Noero

'Lo Sguardo di Adriano', 2018
Marble Roman head, paint
Statue 60 x 36 x 36 cm
Plinth 120 x 45 x 45 cm
1/23
'C-CUT Homo Ab Homine Natus', 2018
Concrete sculpture (XX century), bronze, marble head (50 AC - 37 DC), alabastrine chalk, egg tempera, microcrystalline wax
191 x 62 x 51 cm
2/23
'MANIFESTO FEMMINISTA CHE PIANGE (LE DONNE DI DEMOCRAZIA PROLETARIA)', 2017
Inkjet print on paper, water-based permanent marker
170 x 120 x 6 cm
3/23
'Rene Magritte's the Eternal Idol (After Francesco Vezzoli)', 2016
5 elements, oil on canvas, gilded wooden frame
31 x 18.5 x 5 cm
27.5 x 35 x 5 cm
34.5 x 26.5 x 5 cm
30.5 x 24.5 x 5 cm
31.5 x 20 x 5 cm
166.5 x 35 x 5 cm
4/23
'Tamara De Lempicka's Portrait of Miss. D in the City (After Francesco Vezzoli)', 2016
Mixed media on canvas
124 x 87 x 4.5 cm
5/23
'Telefoni Bianchi (Portrait of a Roman Actress)', 2015
A marble portrait head of a woman, Roman Imperial, late Antonine (circa 170 x 190 A.D.), 18th century bust. restored with Bologna chalk, egg tempera, watercolours, pigments, glossy paint, finish
73 x 54 x 28 cm
6/23
'BI (A Roman Marble Janiform Herm Head, circa 2nd Century A.D.)', 2015
marble sculpture, plaster, pigments
41 x 34 x 23 cm
7/23
'Metamorfosi (Self-portrait as Apollo killing the satyr Marsyas), 2015
Roman Imperial marble figure of a satyr playing the pipe (circa 1st century A.D. with 18th century restorations), polyurethane sculpture
2 x 112.1 x 220 cm
8/23
'Where do you stand on purity', 2014-2015
Handmande wool gobelin tapestry
300 x 300 cm
9/23
'People People (Fighting Sexism With New Tactics - America Loves Her Again)', 2013
Laserprint on canvas, metallic embroidery, gold jewelry
52 x 44 cm
10/23
'RETORICA DELLA RETORICA - FEATURING JOSEF ALBERS & NATALIAGONCHAROVA (AFTER ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI)', 2013
Oil on canvas, laserprint collage, artist's frame
113 x 93 x 8 cm
11/23
'Unique forms of continuity in high heels (after Umberto Boccioni)', 2012
Bronze
122 x 90 x 50 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
12/23
'Styling the past', 2014
12 archaelogical objects, stone and cloth
13/23
'A Present for the Artist', 2013
Tapestry, Inkjet print on canvas, metallic embroidery
265 x 250 cm
59 x 5 x 39 cm
265 x 250 x 5 cm
14/23
'Self-portrait as Emperor Hadrian Loving Antinous', 2012
2 parts 18th century Carrara marble Antinous bust statuary marble Emperor Hadrian bust
46 x 39 x 20 cm
45 x 45 x 19 cm
15/23
'Portrait of Sophia Loren starring in Piazza d'Italia - Souvenir d'Italie (After de Chirico)', 2012
Collage on paper, inkjet print on canvas, metallic and cotton embroidery
60 x 72 cm
16/23
'Antique Not Antique: Self-Portrait as a Crying Roman Togatus', 2012
Roman marble togatus torso (circa 2nd-3rd century A.D.), white marble head
102 x 50 x 35.6 cm
17/23
'Antique Not Antique: Pedicure', 2012
Roman marble fragmentary left foot (circa 1st-2nd century A.D.), "Noir red" nail polish
15.3 cm
18/23
'Self-portrait as Antinous loving Emperor Hadrian', 2012
2 parts 2nd century AD Roman marble head, marble base Carrara marble self-portrait head, marble base
40 x 19 x 20 cm
42 x 24 x 21 cm
105 x 80 x 80 cm
19/23
'Tongue in Ear (Satire of a Satyr)', 2012
2 parts Artist’s head: pink onyx and black St.Laurent marble Satyr’s head: Paros marble and porphyry painted plaster
25 x 12 x 8 cm
135 x 80 x 80 cm
20/23
'Portrait of Sophia Loren as the Muse of Antiquity (After Giorgio de Chirico)', 2011
Gilt bronze sculpture
190 x 60 x 60 cm
Edition of 3
21/23
'A Place in the Sun', 2009
Wool embroidery on canvas
60 x 40 cm
22/23
'Francesco by Francesco (Before and After)', 2002
Double black and white silver print
61 x 82,9 cm
23/23

Francesco Vezzoli

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Exhibitions

C-CUT Homo Ab Homine Natus

Le Metamorfosi di Francesco Vezzoli

Francesco Vezzoli – Pablo Bronstein con Giorgio de Chirico

Arts & Facts

Publications

Selected Works