Double project for one of the most internationally renowned Italian artists, Francesco Vezzoli, at Museion in Bozen (Italy): as guest curator, presenting an exhibition of the Museion collection, and as artist, with the first complete retrospective of his sculptural work.
Entitled Museo Museion, the double show is set to take over the whole of the Bozen venue. Short-circuiting the history of art, he reinterprets part of the Museion collection by making it interface with masterpieces from Western art history kept in major European and American museums.
In the role of curator, the artist is presenting the first themed exhibition of the Museion collection, linking it up to historical masterpieces. By relating the collection to the past, Vezzoli forges new, multiple levels of interpretation of the works and reflects on the explicit and hidden connections in art and the interpretative frameworks ingrained in its system.
Museo Museion
Exhibition of sculptures: 29.01.2016 – 16.05.2016
Exhibition of Museion Collection: 29.01.2016 – 06.11.2016
Francesco Vezzoli, Togatus. Courtesy of the artist
Francesco Vezzoli, Self-Portrait as Apollo del Belvedere’s Lover, 2011. Courtesy of Fondazione Prada. Photo by Alessandro Ciampi
Francesco Vezzoli, Styling the Past. Photo by Alessandro Ciampi
Francesco Vezzoli, True Colors (A Marble Relief Head of a Goddess, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.), 2014. Courtesy of Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso private collection
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