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Francesco Vezzoli — Francesco by Francesco: Before & Ever After...With Love
Francesco Vezzoli

Francesco by Francesco: Before & Ever After...With Love

A diptych of bromoil gelatin silver prints, this work sees Vezzoli turn his lens on himself, merging photography's classical processes with his signature theatricality and self-mythologizing impulse. The bromoil technique lends the images a painterly, antique quality, evoking the aesthetics of Old Master portraiture while firmly situating the work within the tradition of celebrity and icon-making. Housed in an artist's frame, the piece collapses distinctions between past and present, the personal and the performed.

Medium
bromoil gelatin silver prints, in an artist's frame

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April 13, 2016

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Francesco Vezzoli, Francesco by Francesco: Before & Ever After...With Love

A diptych of bromoil gelatin silver prints, this work sees Vezzoli turn his lens on himself, merging photography's classical processes with his signature theatricality and self-mythologizing impulse. The bromoil technique lends the images a painterly, antique quality, evoking the aesthetics of Old Master portraiture while firmly situating the work within the tradition of celebrity and icon-making. Housed in an artist's frame, the piece collapses distinctions between past and present, the personal and the performed.

Medium
bromoil gelatin silver prints, in an artist's frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Artistic Practice, Conceptual Art, Introspective, Gelatin Silver Print, Italian, Portrait, Multiple perspectives, Self-Portrait, Black and White, Contemporary

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