Maurizio Anzeri

Embroidery Art

Angelo. Embroidery on found photo. Photo © Maurizio Anzeri

Giovanni. Embroidery on print.  Photo © Maurizio Anzeri

Family. Embroidery on print. Photo © Maurizio Anzeri

Peter. Embroidery on photo.  Photo © Maurizio Anzeri

Nadia.

Louise B.

Barnaba.

Penny.

Jerome, 2011. 

Boo.

Ben.

Veronica.

Arianna, 2011.

Twins, 2011.

Luca, 2011.

Marianna, 2010.

Bernard, 2010.

Profile Pink, 2012.

Profile Yellow, 2012.

Leo.

Matthew, 2011.

Photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

Photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

Photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

Photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

Photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

Photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

photographer: Richard Burbridge //styling: Robbie Spencer // artwork: Maurizio Anzeri,  for Dazed and Confused, June 2011 // full credits: here

Phase 2,  2010.

Phase 2, 2010.

Phase 4, 2010.

Maurizio Anzeri was born in 1969, Loano, Italy. Lives and works in London.

Maurizio Anzeri makes his portraits by sewing directly into found vintage photographs. His embroidered patterns garnish the figures like elaborate costumes, but also suggest a psychological aura, as if revealing the person’s thoughts or feelings. The antique appearance of the photographs is often at odds with the sharp lines and silky shimmer of the threads. The combined media gives the effect of a dimension where history and future converge. The image used in Round Midnight is an early 20th century ‘glamour shot’ that at the time would have been considered titillating for both the girl’s nudity and ethnicity. Anzeri’s delicately stitched veil recasts the figure with an uncomfortable modesty, overlaying a past generation’s cross-cultural anxieties with an allusion to our own. (via Saatchi Gallery).

Sources: Saatchi Gallery / Yatzer / Designboom / Layflat / Empty Kingdom / Escape Into Life / Google image search

All photo © Maurizio Anzeri