ART
Francesco Vezzoli, Fellini |
Written 30 January |
Wednesday 21 October, 12:00Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 75008 [map]Francesco Vezzoli, Fellini
The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume offers a glimpse of
Federico Fellini’s creative mechanisms by showing his unique ability for absorbing the real through photographs and drawings by Fellini, original film posters, period magazines and excerpts from his films.
À chacun sa vérité"
To mark the exhibition devoted to Fellini, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli presents two new works which address the paradoxical status of illusion and fiction in our perception of reality, together with some of the themes that haunt Fellini’s work: his fascination with celebrities, the shifts in desire and imaginative slants occasioned by the hegemony of the mass media, and the persistence of myth in social and political life.
Vezzoli has been delving into the media/fame system since the late 1990s, looking at the fascination and iconicity of celebrity. The Jeu de Paume auditorium is hosting the “video version” of Vezzoli’s performance at the Guggenheim in New York as part of Performa 2007: Right You Are (If You Think You Are) is a reinterpretation of the Luigi Pirandello’s Each in His Own Way, with Cate Blanchett, Ellen Burstyn, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard – in the presence of Fellini muse and icon
Anita Ekberg, the unforgettable protagonist of La Dolce Vita. Here Vezzoli transformed the original play – a parable of the impossibility of objective truth – into a meditation on our obsession with fame and the private lives of celebrities.
In the same vein as his work on the relationship between the public and “media truth,” the second piece, specially created for the Jeu de Paume, masquerades as an advertising campaign for “La Nuova Dolce Vita,” a mysterious exhibition that will never take place. Eva Mendes, is presented as the glamorous embodiment of this imaginary event.
| What: | Francesco Vezzoli, Fellini |
| When: | Wednesday 21 October, 12:00 |
| Where: | Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 1 place de la Concorde 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Concorde |
| Cost: | 5-7EUR |
| Phone: | 01 47 03 12 50 |
| Web: | www.jeudepaume.org |
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