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Maurizio Anzeri

Round Midnight
Maurizio Anzeri

Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own.

Profile Yellow
Maurizio Anzeri
Profile Pink
Maurizio Anzeri
Leopold
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Enrico
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Mio
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Mia
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I will be with you the night of your wedding
Maurizio Anzeri
Yvonne
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Edith
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Marcel
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Nicola
Maurizio Anzeri

'I work with sewing, embroidery and drawing to explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation. I take inspiration from my own personal experience and observation of how, in other cultures, bodies themselves are treated as living graphic symbols.'

Lille
Maurizio Anzeri
Rita
Maurizio Anzeri
Robert
Maurizio Anzeri
Penny
Maurizio Anzeri
Rebecca
Maurizio Anzeri
Giovanni
Maurizio Anzeri
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