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Almine Rech

Francesco Vezzoli Olga Forever! The Olga Picasso Family Album

Nov 28, 2012 — Mar 2, 2013 | Brussels
Inquire about the exhibition: inquiries@alminerech.com

A dancer with the Ballets Russes before becoming Picasso’s wife, Olga Khokhlova also loved to do embroidery. This was a crucial element for Francesco Vezzoli who, from the beginning, has devoted himself to the lives of women icons who expressed their suffering through the solipsistic practice of embroidery. The tears which the artist has been embroidering obsessively on these faces over the past 15 years represent the other side of glamour.

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Selected artworks

  • Olga Forever (Olga Khokhlova en nymphe dans le ballet L’Après-midi d’un faune, 1916), 2012

    Olga Forever (Olga Khokhlova en nymphe dans le ballet L’Après-midi d’un faune, 1916), 2012

    Oil on canvas, laserprint and embroidery collage
    121 x 84 cm

  • ‘Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, London, ca. 1919)’, 2012

    ‘Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, London, ca. 1919)’, 2012

    Oil on canvas, laserprint and embroidery collage
    121 x 84 cm

  • Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, Paris, ca. 1922), 2012

    Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, Paris, ca. 1922), 2012

    Oil on canvas, laserprint and embroidery collage
    121 x 84 cm

  • Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, ca. 1930), 2012

    Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, ca. 1930), 2012

    Oil on canvas, laserprint and embroidery collage
    121 x 84 cm

  • Olga Forever (Deconstructing Olga), 2012

    Olga Forever (Deconstructing Olga), 2012

    Oil on canvas
    77,5 x 63 x 14 cm

  • Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, ca. 1930 III), 2012

    Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, ca. 1930 III), 2012

    Oil on canvas, laserprint and embroidery collage
    121 x 84 cm

  • Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, 1950s I), 2012

    Olga Forever (Olga Picasso, 1950s I), 2012

    Oil on canvas, laserprint and embroidery collage
    121 x 84 cm

  • Olga Forever (Olga Picasso en mariée, Boisgeloup), 2012

    Olga Forever (Olga Picasso en mariée, Boisgeloup), 2012

    Oil on canvas and laserprint collage
    206 x 134 x 7 cm