The book showcases nearly 200 striking images by self-taught photographer and filmmaker Alberto Venzago, capturing a diverse range of subjects from iconic figures like Andy Warhol to remote indigenous communities. His work spans various global locations, including the Pentagon and the rainforests of Sarawak. Venzago's unique talent lies in his ability to transform his subjects into performers for his lens, creating unforgettable moments that reflect his extensive travels and keen artistic vision.
This volume explores Wolfgang Beltracchi's unusual painting series, The Greats. In recent years, painter and legendary art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi has opened a new chapter of his career. The core of his latest work is an extensive series of paintings, titled The Greats, which have been put on sale as digital artworks using NFT technology. Its starting point was the Salvator Mundi, a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and sold in 2017 in an auction at Christie's in New York for 450 million to an unknown buyer. Beltracchi studied the picture meticulously and created several hundred versions of the motif in a variety of styles. The result is a fascinating game of deception with the disputed painting and its symbolism. This large-format book combines photographic insights into Beltracchi's everyday life in the studio by renowned Swiss photographer Alberto Venzago with documentation of The Greats collection. Essays by luminaries such as Stanford University professor emeritus Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, German philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Markus Gabriel, and others, as well as a conversation between Beltracchi and Swiss writer René Scheu round out this volume that describes and interprets the phenomenon of this extraordinary artist from a range of perspectives.
Alberto Venzago, ein Zürcher Fotograf, verbindet in seiner Arbeit Reportage und Werbung sowie Dokumentation und Inszenierung. Zur Ausstellung seines Lebenswerks im Museum für Gestaltung Zürich ab Juli wird sein kreatives Schaffen mit weltbekannten Persönlichkeiten aus Musik, Kunst und Kultur präsentiert. Zu den prominenten Abgebildeten zählen Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Penélope Cruz und Andy Warhol, die die Vielfalt und den Einfluss seiner fotografischen Kunst verdeutlichen.
