Francesco Vezzoli, 'Just a Gigolo'
Francesco Vezzoli
Just a Gigolo
Mixed media on canvas
52.5 x 74 inches
$8,000 USD
Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971, Brescia, Italy) is known for his provocative multimedia works that merge pop culture, art history, and celebrity into richly layered critiques of fame, desire, and spectacle. Often using embroidery, video, and appropriated imagery, Vezzoli blurs the boundaries between the sacred and the superficial, the personal and the performative.
His work has been exhibited at major institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and the Fondazione Prada (Milan). He represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2006. Vezzoli lives and works in Milan.
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Francesco Vezzoli
Just a Gigolo
Mixed media on canvas
52.5 x 74 inches
$8,000 USD
Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971, Brescia, Italy) is known for his provocative multimedia works that merge pop culture, art history, and celebrity into richly layered critiques of fame, desire, and spectacle. Often using embroidery, video, and appropriated imagery, Vezzoli blurs the boundaries between the sacred and the superficial, the personal and the performative.
His work has been exhibited at major institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and the Fondazione Prada (Milan). He represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2006. Vezzoli lives and works in Milan.
Your purchase supports Dallas Contemporary’s mission to present the leading edge of contemporary art through exhibitions, performances, and public programs. To inquire about this work, please contact shop@dallascontemporary.org.
Francesco Vezzoli
Just a Gigolo
Mixed media on canvas
52.5 x 74 inches
$8,000 USD
Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971, Brescia, Italy) is known for his provocative multimedia works that merge pop culture, art history, and celebrity into richly layered critiques of fame, desire, and spectacle. Often using embroidery, video, and appropriated imagery, Vezzoli blurs the boundaries between the sacred and the superficial, the personal and the performative.
His work has been exhibited at major institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and the Fondazione Prada (Milan). He represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and was featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2006. Vezzoli lives and works in Milan.
Your purchase supports Dallas Contemporary’s mission to present the leading edge of contemporary art through exhibitions, performances, and public programs. To inquire about this work, please contact shop@dallascontemporary.org.
Francesco Vezzoli continues to push the boundaries between high art, celebrity culture, and historical reference through recent exhibitions that fuse theatricality with critical inquiry. In Divas (MAM Shanghai, 2025), Vezzoli presented embroidered portraits of iconic film stars in dialogue with original movie posters, constructing a haunting meditation on glamour, vulnerability, and cultural memory. Meanwhile, Karl Goes to Memphis (Almine Rech Monaco, 2025) reimagined Karl Lagerfeld’s 1980s Monte Carlo apartment, integrating Memphis design pieces with baroque-framed embroideries of the designer.
