The Return of Suzie Wong

April13th

Ideas MAN

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Celebrated portraitist and official L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival "Friend" Vincent Fantauzzo is blurring the lines between art. film and fashion. says - Rachel Sharp "In the same way an art gallery space can sometimes isolate its audience, fashion shows can make people feel, 'How do I turn up? How do I dress? Can I be myself? Can I have an opinion?'," concedes Vincent Fantauzzo, one of Australia's most celebrated portrait artists, sometime model, movie-maker and L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival regular. That's why, this year, LMFF has enlisted nine local ambassadors or "Friends of the Festival"...


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December18th

Painter needs a fit arm for marathon

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ARTIST Vincent Fantauzzo painted his late friend Heath Ledger and won the Archibald's people's choice award in 2008. Now Fantauzzo will call on his other celebrity friends for his 30 Portraits 30 Days project at the NGV Studio in Federation Square next year. In his version of speed painting, Fantauzzo will churn out a portrait a day of inspirational Australians. 30 Portraits 30 Days is based on projects Fantauzzo undertook in New York and Hong Kong. Fantauzzo is friends with Ledger's father, Kim, who is managing a film project, The Return of Suzie Wong, that the artist is co-directing with...


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November2nd

Blurring the lines from one image to a moving picture

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BAZ Luhrmann and Vincent Fantauzzo have found many ways of collaborating; the artist's portrait of the director won this year's Moran Portrait Prize, and the pair embarked on a motorcycle-and-art odyssey across India, raising money for charity. There is also a long-term project that is a work in progress, drawing on notions of art, film, narrative and memory. ''Baz can't paint,'' says Fantauzzo. ''And I can't make films. But I'm often inspired by films, and he's often inspired by paintings, and we wanted to come together and blur the lines. So we made up a story'' - the subject of The Creek,...


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September12th

The Return of Suzie Wong | Framed Magazine

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Following on from his recent accolades in Australia, where he picked up a trifecta of art awards including this year’s Archibald Packing Room Prize with a portrait of celebrity chef Matt Moran in April, the 2011 Doug Moran Portrait Prize for his painting of Baz Luhrmann in May and the Metro Gallery National Art Award in July, Aussie artist Vincent Fantauzzo returns to Hong Kong with his second solo exhibition. This October sees Fantauzzo unveil his highly anticipated Suzie Wong series, 50 years after the popular book The World of Suzie Wong was first published. Collaborating with Australian...


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