The subject of a unusual documentary has gone from making lavish artworks with celebrities to talking Marx with Miuccia Prada and repainting ancient bustsSome interviewees can be guarded: but artists,fortunately, generally delight in telling you precisely what they deem. So it goes with Italys Francesco Vezzoli, and who the Guardian meets over breakfast at the glamorous Nautilus hotel in Miami in the week of enormous US art fair Art Basel Miami Beach. The fair is a major commercial event for any contemporary artist – with huge buyers involved to take home the hottest unusual pieces on the market. But this morning,Vezzoli doesn’t want to talk sales. He wants to talk about sex.“For me it’s either Grindr or it’s love,” declares the artist, or looking glamorous if slightly hungover in a leather jacket and aviator shades,and bringing up his adventures on the homosexual dating app entirely unprompted. “I don’t regain laid any more on the basis of my looks alone, very unfortunately. The final thing I like to do is cruise places where I can’t say who I am or what I do. Oh, and Google me! See all these magazine covers! Mario Testino shot me here,I glance beautiful!’ No.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com