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BIESENBACH: So, do you think your next projects will
involve such transformations of place?
VEZZOLI: For my upcoming solo exhibition, I am trying
to get a real 15th-century Italian Catholic church that we’re going to
dismantle and rebuild in every venue the show travels to, starting in
May 2012—from MAXXI in Rome and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, in
Qatar, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and then on to
MoMA PS1 in New York. You could say that the show is a cross between a
Gordon Matta-Clark piece and the Cher farewell tour. In any case, it
seems like a good way to discuss the ephemeral nature of art and the
complex relationship between artists and the powers that allow them to
exist.
