Curated by Donatien Grau, Francesco Vezzoli's 'Museums of Tears' is on view at Museo Correr, Venice, until November 24, 2024
Tears, apparently, are not only out of fashion but also underrepresented in the history of art—and Francesco Vezzoli won’t have it. Despite the glamorous veneer of his public persona, Vezzoli is actually quite the scholar. After obsessive research, he couldn’t find any paintings, from Old Masters or contemporary practitioners, depicting tearful effluviums of any kind. So he addressed the lack of imagery in the lacrimosa department his own way.
” I can talk about melancholy, although it’s a subject I try never to tap into because it has to do with profoundly private feelings that I’m not keen to reveal…Tears have been a defining subject of my work from the very beginning, since the Veruschka portrait and my first Biennale…After meticulous researches, I’ve concluded that in art history tears have never been actually represented; in classical paintings pain or sorrow or despair are usually depicted hiding or averting the eyes.
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