Who gave the title to the work? “My psychoanalyst suggested it to me”, explains Fedez, “because he sees opposite traits in me”. Two busts with classic proportions portray the Milanese rapper and entrepreneur: one dark with a cruel but integral expression, the other with more reassuring but vain gestures. Two snapshots in dynamic dialogue that continue to reveal nuances of attitude to the eye.
The double sculpture Il pessimista narcisista o il narcisista pessimista (The narcissistic pessimist or the pessimistic narcissist) presented in the Triennale also effectively tells the work of its author Francesco Vezzoli: the reflection on classical and baroque statuary - and on its pressing relevance in the present - and the study of the dynamics related to the star system, the cult of celebrity, narcissism. In a hyper-expressive language that refers to the statuary of the German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Vezzoli deforms the expressions almost to the point of caricature.
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