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Vezzoli's exploration of visual history, spanning from the glamour of Italian cinema's golden age to the sacred motifs of religious iconography. Francesco Vezzoli's work revels in the power of nostalgia, fame, and sorrow, threading cinema, embroidery, and art history into a singular, melancholic vision. His bejeweled tears—stitched onto the faces of film and fashion's great icons—transform heartbreak into ornament, elevating sorrow to spectacle. This book traces Vezzoli's engagement with visual history, from the golden age of Italian cinema to the devotional traditions of religious iconography. Through film, needlework, and performance, he reframes longing and loss as a conceptual thread linking cultural memory with contemporary image-making.Francesco Vezzoli: Diva is a study in beauty, artifice, and catharsis.

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Francesco Vezzoli has been making provocative and genre-breaking art--encompassing film and video, embroidery, sculpture, and photography; and often playing with notions of celebrity, glamour, and spectacle--for more than three decades. His new book, 'Francesco Vezzoli: Diva' (Skira), plays with iconic figures from pop culture, religion, and the golden ages of both Italian cinema and Hollywood, with Vezzoli embellishing portraits of Maria Callas, Greta Garbo, Bianca Jagger, Veruschka, and many others with embroidered tears, glittered eyebrows, and bloody noses.--Corey Seymour ""Vogue""

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Shai Baitel, exhibition curator and writer, is the artistic director of The Modern Art Museum (MAM) in Shanghai. He conceived the exhibitions 'Bob Dylan: Retrospectrum' in 2019 and 'Zaha Hadid Architects-Close Up' in 2021. With Skira he recently published Marina Abramovic Transforming Energy (2024) and David Hockney. Paper Trails (2024).

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