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Article: Francesco Vezzoli: Castello Di Rivoli. (Reviews: Turin).(Brief Article)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Francesco Vezzoli "writes" a very specific history of feelings, from which there emerges a tie between personal emptiness and the need to dramatize one's inner life. Through the lens of movie-star fandom, this artist based in Milan and Rome reinterprets certain great stars of the twentieth century--among them have been Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Anna Magnani, and Edith Piaf--in such a way that they partially lose their femme fatale qualities in favor of a feminine aura that is, in a broad sense, maternal. This is structured within a theater of sentiments that refers both to film narratives and to the quotidian events behind the movie stars' apparently rustproof ...
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