Andy Picci

Andrea Picci is a conceptual artist and poet.[1][2][3][4][5] His work concerns celebrity and identity.[2][3][5][6]

Andy Picci
Born
Andrea Picci
EducationCentral Saint Martins
Websiteandypicci.com

Early life

Picci grew up in Switzerland.[7] He studied photography at ECAL, visual communication at ESAM Design in Paris, and has a MFA from Central Saint Martins in London.[2][3][4][8]

Career

In 2015, Picci staged an artistic performance[9] in which he dressed as Pete Doherty, fooling some photojournalists and having his picture published on Le Parisien's front-page as Doherty's.[2][5][10][11][12][13][14]

"By embodying a false Doherty on a photograph presented as a true one, the doppelgänger joined an appropriationist art process in a Richard Prince’s style, questioning the construction of identity (hello Cindy Sherman) and tackled our Society of the Spectacle," stated the French newspaper Les Inrockuptibles.[9]

In April 2017, Picci published a book of poetry, Essais de gloire (Anatomie de mon coeur en été).[15]

In June 2018, he showed a series of copies of historic paintings altered to resemble Nabilla Benattia.[5][10][11][16] Benattia said she was "very flattered" by the exhibition.[17][18]

In 2019, he published a series of Instagram face filters. The filters questioned user's relation to selfie.[14][19]

Publications

Poetry
  • Essais de Gloire (Anatomie de mon coeur en été), Éditions de la Marquise, Lausanne 2017. ISBN 978-2-940591-03-9
  • PZ World, IDEA ltd , PZToday , London 2018. REF 11545
  • Futures Of Love, Magasins Généraux, Paris 2019. ISBN 978-2-9563028-3-4
  • Link In Bio - Art After Social Media, City of Leipzig, Museum der BildendenKünste Leipzig, Germany 2020. ISBN 978-3-86828-984-8

References
  1. "Entre art et identité : rencontre avec Andrea Picci – Maze Magazine". Maze Magazine (in French). 15 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. Bezold, John (2016). PLATEA. Vol. 3. Ismaning, Germany: Platea Media GmbH. p. 07. ISSN 2365-9297.
  3. "Was verkaufen Künstler in Zeiten sozialer Medien? | Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben". www.monopol-magazin.de (in German). Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  4. "Andy Picci, un enfant (trop?) de son siècle". bewaremag.com (in French). 2 February 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  5. Hugo Compain, Hannah Larvin (translator). "Artist Andy Picci is questioning identity in the age of social media". Vogue English. Archived from the original on 21 September 2018. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help) Archived 21 September 2018.
  6. "On a testé : la biennale de Paname | Twenty Magazine". www.twentymagazine.fr (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  7. "Qui est Andy Picci, le jeune homme ressemblant à Pete Doherty qui a berné les paparazzis ?". LCI (in French). Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  8. "Andy Picci". Avenir Magazine. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  9. Boinet, Caroline (30 September 2015). "Ceci n'est pas un Pete". Les Inrockuptibles. 1035: 32.
  10. "Nabilla, Joconde des temps modernes, pour Allô, l'exposition d'Andy Picci". FIGARO (in French). 4 June 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  11. "The Rake's progress: last week in gossip | Apollo Magazine". Apollo. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  12. "Sosie de Pete Doherty en Une du «Parisien»: «Les paparazzis m'ont encerclé et j'ai joué le jeu»". 20 Minutes (in French). 22 September 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. "« Pete Doherty habite à Melun »: quand Le Parisien confond le musicien avec un inconnu". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  14. Peters, Alex (28 July 2020). "Meet Andy Picci, the digital artist behind your favourite quarantine art". Dazed. Retrieved 26 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. Picci, Andrea (2017). Essais de gloire : (anatomie de mon coeur en été). Lausanne. ISBN 978-2-940591-03-9. OCLC 1013910271.
  16. Dell'Anna, Fabio (5 June 2017). "Une Expo sur Nabilla? Non, mais allô!". Le Matin. n°134: 20–21.
  17. "Salle d'attente". Les Échos (in French). France. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  18. "Nabilla "très flattée" de l'expo qui lui est consacrée et la transforme en Joconde". Le Huffington Post (in French). 6 June 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  19. Lisa, Miquet (6 February 2019). "Avec ses propres filtres Instagram, Andy Picci interroge notre rapport aux réseaux sociaux". Konbini Arts - Photographie et arts sans filtre par Konbini (in French). Retrieved 26 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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